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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2008 Aug;79(2):173–177.

Table 3.

Pairwise comparisons of concordant tests for P. falciparum detection between different test methods

Nested PCR Kappa (95% CI) MSP-2 PCR Kappa (95% CI) LDR-FMA Kappa (95% CI)
Microscopy 0.54 (0.45-0.63) 0.52 (0.42-0.61) 0.49 (0.39-0.58)
Nested PCR 0.76 (0.75-0.87) 0.71 (0.63-0.78)
MSP-2 PCR 0.81 (0.75-0.87)