Table 1.
Comparison of FACS with SYBR Green I and Giemsa stained microscopic analyses for the determination of malaria parasitemia.
| Expected parasitemia (%) | Observed value | FACS/microscopy (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light microscopy | FACS | ||||||
| Mean | SD | CV (%) | Mean | SD | CV (%) | ||
| 22 | 22.05 | 1.59 | 7.20% | 23.68 | 0.53 | 2.20% | 107% |
| 10 | 8.23 | 0.69 | 8.40% | 12.45 | 0.37 | 3.00% | 151% |
| 5 | 4.51 | 0.92 | 20.50% | 5.63 | 0.25 | 4.40% | 125% |
| 1 | 0.89 | 0.17 | 18.70% | 1.18 | 0.13 | 10.70% | 132% |
| 0.5 | 0.52 | 0.05 | 9.00% | 0.68 | 0.1 | 14.60% | 132% |
| 0.1 | 0.17 | 0.06 | 33.70% | 0.15 | 0.02 | 16.30% | 91% |
| 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.0096 | 66.00% | 0.02 | 0.0062 | 37.20% | 116% |