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 3

Comparison of parasite densities using absolute WBCs, assumed WBCs, and WBCs Reference value.

	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,	4944	4944	4944	4944	4944	4944	4944
Minimum	10	10	12	16	18	20	21
25% percentile	1947	1013	1215	1620	1863	2025	2106
Median	11316	6081	7298	9730	11190	12163	12649
75% percentile	72777	35780	42936	57248	65835	71560	74423
Maximum	2790960	1993543	2392252	3189669	3668119	3987086	4146569
Mean	69618	36851	44221	58961	67805	73701	76649
Std. deviation	149152	91603	109924	146565	168550	183206	190534
Std. error (mean)	2121	1303	1563	2085	2397	2606	2710
Lower 95% CI of mean	65459	34297	41156	54875	63106	68593	71337
Upper 95% CI of mean	73776	39405	47286	63048	72505	78809	81962
Geometric mean	10644	5424	6509	8679	9981	10848	11282
Lower 95% CI of geo. mean	9986	5088	6105	8140	9361	10175	10581
Upper 95% CI of geo. mean	11347	5783	6940	9253	10641	11567	12029