The microscopic detection of malaria infected red blood
cells in patients with relatively high levels of parasitemia
is straight forward and accurate. However, in patients who
exhibit low levels of parasitemia, false negative results often
occur[3]. The efficient identification and treatment of patients
with low levels of parasitemia constitutes a significant
challenge in decreasing disease transmission.
We next sought to better understand differences in the
efficacy of these three methods of plasmodium detection in
samples with low levels of parasitemia. In this analysis only
samples with low levels of parasitemia were analyzed (