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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 3.

Detection of alleles not corresponding to clones present in samples

False-positive alleles detected per sample*
Sample composition    Total parasite density msp1 msp2 TA40 TA60 TA81 PfPK2
Single clone 50–50,000 parasites/μL 0 0–2 0–1 0 0 0
Three clones, ratio of 1:2:7 10,000 parasites/μL 0–1 1–3 0–1 0 0 0–3
50,000 parasites/μL 0–1 3 0–1 0 0 0–3
Six clones, equal ratios 300 parasites/μL 0 3 0 0 0 1
3,000 parasites/μL 1 3 0 0 0 0
30,000 parasites/μL 1 3 0 0 0 0
Six clones, various ratios (individual clones present at 5% to 60% of total parasite density) 30,000–50,000 parasites/μL 0–1 1–2 0–2 0 0 0–4
*

Bold, no false-positive alleles were detected in samples in that category.