Fig. 3

Comparison between parasitaemias determined using the XN-30 system and microscopy. a Dot-plot of parasitaemias determined using the XN-30 system and microscopy. Data from 5 types of blood samples are compared. Grey and white dots indicate parasitaemias obtained using the XN-30 system (denoted as ‘X’) and microscopy (denoted as ‘M’), respectively. Horizontal bars represent means calculated with values from three individual measurements. All data are provided in Additional file 1: Figure S2 and Additional file 2: Table S2. b Scatterplot of parasitaemias obtained from the XN-30 system and microscopy. Data are summarized with mean values from each sample shown in (a). R² indicates the coefficient of determination. The diagonal line represents the regression line. c Dot-plot of RBC (i), WBC (ii) and PLT (iii) counts, and HCT (iv), MCV (v) and MPV (vi) values. Horizontal bars represent means. Data were obtained from blood samples diluted at 1:50