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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Aug 8.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2003 Oct;69(4):372–376.

Table 4.

Mean Plasmodium density estimates per microliter

P. vivax
 P. falciparum
Asexual Gametocyte Asexual Gametocyte
1998 gametocyte status
 Positive, both A and B 5,623 229 2,239 275
 Positive, either A or B 3,802 138 9,550 49
 Negative, both A and B 257 – 5,754 –
1999 gametocyte status
 Positive, both A and B 5,129 186 4,365 129
 Positive, either A or B 2,570 43 6,607 36
 Negative, both A and B 339 – 6,026 –