Figure 2From: A method for reducing the sloughing of thick blood films for malaria diagnosisFrequency distribution of adherence scores of the blood droplets by method. Slides prepared by the scratch method had the highest frequency of complete adherence and did not have any instances of significant defects (score 1) or severe defects (score 0). The acetone dip did not improve droplet adherence over the standard preparation method.Back to article page