Towards the use of a smartphone imaging-based tool for point-of-care detection of asymptomatic low-density malaria parasitaemia

Table 1 Parasite densities and average diffusion coefficients from 18 and 28 s rRNA primers of patient samples. Quantitative PCR and PD-LAMP was performed on six infected blood samples and a negative control (uninfected blood). A significant difference (p < 0.05) was shown in the

Patient ID	Group	Parasite density by microscopy (parasites/µL)	Parasite density by qPCR (parasites/µL)	28 s diffusion coeff. (± standard dev.) (m²/s)	18 s diffusion coeff. (± standard dev.) (m²/s)
1	UM^a	N.D.^e	265,782	6.4(± 0.51)e⁻¹³	6.1(± 0.61)e⁻¹³
2	CM^b	64	126	6.7(± 1.31)e⁻¹³	7.0(± 0.58)e⁻¹³
3	SMA^c	524^d	4	7.9(± 0.91)e⁻¹³	6.9(± 0.78)e⁻¹³
4	CM	545	2552	7.7(± 0.67)e⁻¹³	6.9(± 0.28)e⁻¹³
5	CM	26,643	1466	6.5(± 0.51)e⁻¹³	7.1(± 0.45)e⁻¹³
6	CM	511,972	N.D.	7.05(± 0.25)e⁻¹³	6.9(± 0.35)e⁻¹³
NTC	–	0	–	8.8(± 0.73)e⁻¹³	9.0(± 1.01)e⁻¹³

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