From: Giemsa-stained thick blood films as a source of DNA for Plasmodium species-specific real-time PCR
 | Laboratory malaria diagnosis |  | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Category # | P. falciparum | P. vivax | P. ovale | P. malariae | Mixed infection° | Negative | Total |
0 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | 20 | 20 |
0* | 4 | 1 | Â | Â | Â | Â | 5 |
1-100 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 3 | Â | Â | 30 |
101-500 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Â | 16 |
501-1000 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | Â | 16 |
> 1001 | 18 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 3 | Â | 48 |
Total | 50 | 25 | 25 | 10 | 5 | 20 | 135 |