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. 2002 Dec;40(12):4729–4731. doi: 10.1128/JCM.40.12.4729-4731.2002

TABLE 1.

Findings with the Cell-Dyn 4000 hematology analyzer for 113 patients with or without malaria infectiona

Plasmodium spp. and parasitemia level Total no. of patients No. (%) of patients with:
Depolarizing monocytes Pseudoreticulocytosis Either or both abnormalities
P. falciparum overall 46 26 (57) 23 (50) 33 (72)
    Parasitemia, ≥0.5% 25 17 (68) 22 (88) 24 (96)
    Parasitemia, <0.5% 21 9 (43) 1 (5) 9 (43)
P. vivax or P. ovale 12 3 (25) 0 (0) 3 (25)
Plasmodium spp. overall 58 29 (50) 23 (40) 36 (62)
None 55 2 (4)b 0 (0) 2 (4)b
a

Findings with the Cell-Dyn 4000 hematology analyzer are for patients whose malaria or lack of malaria was determined by routine malaria analysis.

b

One of the two patients without malaria in whom depolarizing monocytes were observed had been treated for malaria the previous month.