Malaria Parasite Density Estimated with White Blood Cells Count Reference Value Agrees with Density Estimated with Absolute in Children Less Than 5 Years in Central Ghana

Table 2

Comparison of parasite densities using absolute WBCs, assumed WBCs, and WBCs reference value among females of the population.

	Absolute WBCs	WBCs count of 5000/µL	WBCs count of 6000/µL	WBCs count of 8000/µL	WBCs count of 9200/µL	WBCs count of 10000/µL	WBCs count of 10400/µL
Number of observations,	2443	2443	2443	2443	2443	2443	2443
Minimum	13	10	12	16	18	20	21
25% percentile	1843	957	1149	1531	1761	1914	1991
Median	10325	5375	6450	8600	9890	10750	11180
75% percentile	73851	35866	43039	57385	65993	71731	74600
Maximum	2790960	1993543	2392252	3189669	3668119	3987086	4146569
Mean	70980	38690	46428	61904	71190	77380	80475
Std. deviation	158340	102849	123418	164558	189242	205697	213925
Std. error (mean)	3204	2081	2497	3329	3829	4162	4328
Lower 95% CI of mean	64698	34610	41532	55375	63682	69219	71988
Upper 95% CI of mean	77262	42770	51324	68433	78698	85541	88962
Geometric mean	10217	5243	6292	8389	9647	10486	10906
Lower 95% CI of geo. mean	9324	4783	5739	7653	8800	9566	9948
Upper 95% CI of geo. mean	11197	5748	6897	9196	10576	11495	11955