Application of dried blood spot sample pooling strategies for Plasmodium 18S rRNA biomarker testing to facilitate identification of infected persons in large-scale epidemiological studies

Table 1 Quantitative bias for DBS samples compared to liquid samples

Sample type	Pf qRT-PCR		Pan qRT-PCR
Sample type	Bias (log₁₀ parasites/mL blood)	95% limits of agreement	Bias (log₁₀ parasites/mL blood)	95% limits of agreement
Serial dilutions of Pf cultures	− 0.37	− 0.86–0.12	− 0.39	− 0.91–0.14
Venous blood of infected individuals	− 0.21	− 0.73–0.31	− 0.19	− 0.93–0.55

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