Fig. 5: Clinical sample selection to evaluate the performance of Dragonfly Pan/Pf malaria platform.

Submicroscopic parasitaemia is defined as a parasite density of <16 parasites/μL, corresponding to the theoretical LOD for an expert microscopist, based on the ability to detect one asexual parasite among 500 leucocytes, assuming a white blood cell count of 8000 leucocytes/μL. Created in BioRender. Cavuto, M. (2025) https://BioRender.com/rwbh4tn. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.