TABLE 4.

Precision data of the qPCR method on the basis of the qPCR C_T values

Parasite density (p/ml)a	Mean CT	CT SD	CT coefficient of variation (%)
10,000	30.41	0.25	0.82
2,000	32.55	0.33	1.03
400	34.29	0.24	0.71
80	36.51	0.31	0.85
16	38.83	0.19	0.49
Total variance standard	34.52	0.27	0.78

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