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Figure 5

From: Development of a quantitative, portable, and automated fluorescent blue-ray device-based malaria diagnostic equipment with an on-disc SiO2 nanofiber filter

Figure 5

Process for malaria diagnosis using the automated malaria diagnostic system. (a) The manual steps involved in the automatic malaria diagnostic system: blood sampling, injection into the scan disc, and scan disc setup. (b) Diluted samples before and after filtration by centrifugal force. (c) Fluorescent images of erythrocytes in the detection area captured by the automated malaria diagnostic system. (Top) Acquisition of fluorescent images (Middle) erythrocytes are deployed in a monolayer formation. (Bottom) Malaria parasites (arrows) are fluorescently stained in the detection area. High-magnification fluorescent image of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes on the disc. The target malaria parasites were analysed quantitatively at the single-cell level.

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