Fig. 3

Comparison of the initial parasitaemia (P0) in study mice in which the parasitaemia of donor animals was measured using Giemsa-stained thin blood smears versus whole-body luminescence. The graph represents P0 parasitaemia in 160 study mice in which the parasitaemia of donor animals was measured using Giemsa-stained thin blood smears vs. 160 mice in which whole-body parasitaemia was used to predict parasitaemia in donor mice using Eq. (1). Error bars represent the ± SEM parasitaemia for each experimental condition. An unpaired t-test with Welch’s correction was used to determine significant differences between study groups. Values P < 0.05 were considered statistically significant