Table 2.
Control | Samples per run | Total runs | Nominal parasites/mL | Nominal RNA log10 copies/mL | Intra-assay (within run) | Inter-assay (within laboratory) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SD | %CV | SD | %CV | |||||
High | 3 | 5 | 4 × 105 | 9.60 | 0.057 | 0.60 | 0.154 | 1.63 |
Mid | 2 | 3 | 8 × 103 | 7.90 | 0.084 | 1.11 | 0.142 | 1.88 |
Low | 3 | 5 | 80 | 5.90 | 0.106 | 1.79 | 0.241 | 4.05 |
Negative | 2 | 5 | 0 | None detected | – | – | – | – |