Table 2.

Reproducibility of the real-time PCR approach to detect Plasmodium species.

	P. falciparum	P. vivax	P. malariae	P. ovale	P. knowlesi
Internal control (copy/µl)	3200	3300	100	3100	1000
Coefficient of variation	1.2%	1.0%	3.6%	2.5%	2.5%
Number of replicates (n)	n = 78	n = 80	n = 90	n = 95	n = 58