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Table 4 Geometric Mean of parasitaemia by microscopy and PCR in the three villages

From: Elimination of Plasmodium falciparum in an area of multi-drug resistance

 

Village 1 (PLU) May 2010

Village 2 (WLM) Dec 2011

Village 3 (TMK) May 2012

Microscopy

PCR

Microscopy

PCR

Microscopy

PCR

Geometric mean (range) all species

63.0 (32–256)

7.82 (0.28–186,948)

109 (16–5,888)

50.31 (0.25–751,510)

85.0 (2–4,224)

26.07 (0.11–296,713)

Geometric mean (range) P. falciparum

170.0 (90–256)

2.95 (0.34–5,999)

110 (16–5,792)

69.52 (0.27–751,510)

96.0 (16–4,224)

79.01 (0.25–296,713)

Geometric mean (range) P. vivax

47.9 (32–144)

24.38 (0.31–25,136)

109 (16–5,888)

36.78 (0.3–108,318)

79 (2–2,880)

14.79 (0.11–97,719)