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Polymerase chain reaction-based approaches to estimate MOI can lack sensitivity. For example, in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, genotyping of the merozoite surface protein (MSP1\/2) genes is a standard method for assessing MOI, despite the apparent problem of underestimation. The availability of deep coverage data from massively parallizable sequencing technologies means that MOI can be detected genome wide by considering the abundance of heterozygous genotypes. Here, we present a method to estimate MOI, which considers unique combinations of polymorphisms from sequence reads. The method is implemented within the estMOI software. When applied to clinical P.falciparum isolates from three continents, we find that multiple infections are common, especially in regions with high transmission.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: \u00a0estMOI is freely available from http:\/\/pathogenseq.lshtm.ac.uk.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0samuel.assefa@lshtm.ac.uk<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btu005","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,1,19]],"date-time":"2014-01-19T01:24:37Z","timestamp":1390094677000},"page":"1292-1294","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":74,"title":["estMOI: estimating multiplicity of infection using parasite deep sequencing data"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"30","author":[{"given":"Samuel A.","family":"Assefa","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, WC1E 7HT, London, UK, 2Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, CB10 1SA, Hinxton, UK and 3Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Box 30096 BT3, Blantyre, Malawia"}]},{"given":"Mark D.","family":"Preston","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, WC1E 7HT, London, UK, 2Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, CB10 1SA, Hinxton, UK and 3Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Box 30096 BT3, Blantyre, Malawia"}]},{"given":"Susana","family":"Campino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, WC1E 7HT, London, UK, 2Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, CB10 1SA, Hinxton, UK and 3Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Box 30096 BT3, Blantyre, Malawia"}]},{"given":"Harold","family":"Ocholla","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, WC1E 7HT, London, UK, 2Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, CB10 1SA, Hinxton, UK and 3Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Box 30096 BT3, Blantyre, Malawia"}]},{"given":"Colin J.","family":"Sutherland","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, WC1E 7HT, London, UK, 2Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, CB10 1SA, Hinxton, UK and 3Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Box 30096 BT3, Blantyre, Malawia"}]},{"given":"Taane G.","family":"Clark","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, WC1E 7HT, London, UK, 2Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, CB10 1SA, Hinxton, UK and 3Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Box 30096 BT3, Blantyre, Malawia"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,1,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012710510839800_btu005-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e1002992","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pgen.1002992","article-title":"Population genomic scan for candidate signatures of balancing selection to guide antigen characterization in malaria parasites","volume":"8","author":"Amambua-Ngwa","year":"2012","journal-title":"PLoS Genet."},{"key":"2023012710510839800_btu005-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e53160","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0053160","article-title":"Effective preparation of Plasmodium vivax field isolates for high-throughput whole genome sequencing","volume":"8","author":"Auburn","year":"2013","journal-title":"PLoS ONE"},{"key":"2023012710510839800_btu005-B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"11","DOI":"10.1016\/S0035-9203(99)90321-8","article-title":"Genetic structure and dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum infections in the Kilombero region of Tanzania","volume":"93","author":"Babiker","year":"1999","journal-title":"Trans. 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