Table 1

Fluorescence of PG and SGI - DNA adducts on Plasmodium infected erythrocytes at low parasitaemia after removal of haemoglobin and detergents

Fluorescence units (AU)


SYBRGreen I®

PicoGreen®



% parasitaemia

IRBC

IRBC

IRBC-WBC

IRBC-WBC/W


5

15 ± 3

229 ± 12

243 ± 4

279 ± 8

2.5

9 ± 2

127 ± 7

141 ± 8

161 ± 7

1.3

6 ± 2

52 ± 1

83 ± 9

80 ± 4

0.6

5 ± 4

36 ± 3

36 ± 11

45 ± 2

0.3

ND1

20 ± 5

20 ± 8

31 ± 4

0.1

ND

11 ± 3

11 ± 3

14 ± 2

0.05

ND

5 ± 4

ND

7 ± 3


Limits of detection and quantification (parasitaemia %)


LOD

1.37

0.23

0.21

0.24

LOQ

4.14

0.71

0.74

0.64


IRBC = Infected red-blood cells; IRBC-WBC = Infected red-blood cells whithout white blood cells removal; IRBC-WBC/W = Infected red-blood cells after white blood cells removal; ND = not detected.

Moneriz et al. Malaria Journal 2009 8:279   doi:10.1186/1475-2875-8-279

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