Challenges in Laboratory Diagnosis of Malaria in a Low-Resource Country at Tertiary Care in Eastern Nepal: A Comparative Study of Conventional vs. Molecular Methodologies

Table 1

Quantification of parasitemia using the RBC count method among Plasmodium species identified in the blood film using light microscopy.

Sample code	Microscopic examination	Infected RBCs per 20 fields (100x)	Parasites(per μL)	Infected RBCs per 2000 RBCs	Parasitemia (%)
MP125	Trophozoites of Plasmodium falciparum	12	12000	5	0.25
MP134	Trophozoites of Plasmodium falciparum	10	10000	4	0.2
MP146	Schizonts of Plasmodium vivax	7	7000	3	0.15