Fig. 4
From: Off-grid field-deployable molecular diagnostic platform for malaria surveillance
Pilot field testing of P. falciparum infection assays in field-collected Anopheles mosquitoes. The feasibility of the bCUBE machine for human malaria parasite surveillance was assessed in a preliminary field study in the Cameroon malaria-endemic region. Mosquito collection, sorting of mosquitoes, DNA isolation, and bCUBE qPCR using 18S rRNA primers/probe were all performed at the field site within 4–5 h. The graph indicates that 23% of abdomen and 19% of head + thorax samples of collected mosquitoes were positive for P. falciparum infection