Table 2.

Features of infections with a negative malaria rapid diagnostic test and positive microscopy or cytbPCR result (N = 12)

cytbPCR results	Age (years)	Sex	Travel	Microscopy (parasites/μL)	qPCR (parasites/μL)
P. falciparum	33	male	no	4,309	4,714
P. falciparum	20	male	no	14,420	3,057
P. falciparum	5	male	yes	21,991	report unavailable
P. falciparum	8	female	no	43,886	8,018
P. falciparum	24	female	no	negative	negative
P. falciparum	35	male	no	negative	negative
P. falciparum	1	female	no	negative	negative
P. falciparum	24	female	no	negative	13,516
P. malariae	29	male	no	10*	1.48
P. malariae	30	female	no	negative	negative
P. malariae	25	male	no	negative	negative
P. vivax	4	female	no	negative	negative

^*This low parasite density did not allow for species identification.