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Of 211 dried blood spot samples selected for the study, 186 (88.2%) were PCR positive for <jats:italic>P. falciparum<\/jats:italic>. The mean MOI based on <jats:italic>MSP1<\/jats:italic> genotyping was 2.3 and was not associated with age. A high prevalence of wild-type parasites for <jats:italic>pfcrt<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>pfmdr1<\/jats:italic> was found, with a haplotype frequency (K76\/N86) of 88.8% and 17.7% of the isolates having two copies of the <jats:italic>pfmdr1<\/jats:italic> gene. For <jats:italic>pfATPase6<\/jats:italic>, all the parasites carried the wild-type S769 allele. Sequencing showed no evidence of non-synonymous mutations associated with reduced artemisinin derivative sensitivity in the <jats:italic>P. falciparum k13<\/jats:italic> gene. In conclusion, we found that <jats:italic>P. falciparum<\/jats:italic> parasites in Botswana were mostly wild type for the drug resistance markers evaluated. Yet, there was a high rate of a molecular marker associated to reduced sensitivity to lumefantrine. 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