Research Article
Optical Identification of Plasmodium falciparum Malarial Byproduct for Parasite Density Estimation
Table 1
Optical densities of uninfected and Plasmodium falciparum‐infected blood samples of different parasite density at S-band, β-band, and α-band.
| Blood samples | Mean optical densities (ODs) (a.u.) | S-band | α-band | β-band | OD(β/α)(S) |
| u-blood | | 1.07a ± 0.01 | 0.10a ± 0.05 | 0.09a ± 0.01 | 0.96 ± 0.01 | i-blood (PD) | (+) | 1.04a ± 0.01 | 0.08b ± 0.01 | 0.05b ± 0.02 | 0.65 ± 0.01 | (++) | 0.99b ± 0.06 | 0.10c ± 0.01 | 0.06c ± 0.01 | 0.59 ± 0.03 | (+++) | 0.71c ± 0.03 | 0.15d ± 0.03 | 0.08a ± 0.01 | 0.38 ± 0.01 | (++++) | 0.64d ± 0.06 | 0.17e ± 0.01 | 0.07a ± 0.02 | 0.26 ± 0.01 | value | | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 |
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Comparing u-blood samples to i-blood samples, mean ODs with different superscript along the columns are significantly different.
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