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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2006 Nov;75(5):836–842.

Table 2.

Ability to detect alleles of laboratory clones

Correct laboratory clones detected per sample*
Sample composition    Total parasite density msp1 msp2 TA40 TA60 TA81 PfPK2
Single clone 50–50,000 parasites/μL 1 1 1 1 1 1
Three clones, ratio of 1:2:7 10,000 parasites/μL 2–3 3 3 3 3 2–3
50,000 parasites/μL 2–3 3 3 3 2–3 2–3
Six clones, equal ratios 300 parasites/μL 5 5 6 6 6 6
3,000 parasites/μL 6 5 6 6 6 6
30,000 parasites/μL 6 5 6 6 6 6
Six clones, various ratios (individual clones present at 5% to 60% of total parasite density) 30,000–50,000 parasites/μL 5–6 4–6 5–6 5–6 5–6 5–6
*

Bold, all clones present were detected in samples in that category.