Table 2.
Comparison of observed and expected Plasmodium species assemblages by different diagnostic techniques.
| Light microscopy | LDR-FMA | |||||
| Observed | Expected1 | X2 | Observed | Expected | X2 | |
| neg | 1406 | 1453.2 | 1.5 | 683 | 605.0 | 10.1 |
| Pf | 660 | 620.4 | 2.5 | 704 | 736.1 | 1.4 |
| Pv | 276 | 247.7 | 3.2 | 350 | 335.2 | 0.6 |
| Pm | 84 | 59.3 | 10.3 | 45 | 93.4 | 25.1 |
| Po | 0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 22 | 30.4 | 2.3 |
| Pf+Pv | 86 | 105.7 | 3.7 | 363 | 407.9 | 4.9 |
| Pf+Pm | 9 | 25.3 | 10.5 | 136 | 113.7 | 4.4 |
| Pf+Po | 0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 27 | 37.0 | 2.7 |
| Pv+Pm | 5 | 10.1 | 2.6 | 26 | 51.8 | 12.8 |
| Pv+Po | 0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 7 | 16.9 | 5.8 |
| Pm+Po | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 4.7 | 2.9 |
| Pf+Pv+Pm | 1 | 4.3 | 2.5 | 99 | 63.0 | 20.6 |
| Pf+Pv+Po | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 33 | 20.5 | 7.6 |
| Pf+Pm+Po | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8 | 5.7 | 0.9 |
| Pv+Pm+Po | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6 | 2.6 | 4.4 |
| Pf+Pv+Pm+Po | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 17 | 3.2 | 60.4 |
| Total: | 37.9 | Total: | 167.0 | |||
| p < 0.001 | p < 0.001 | |||||
1 Expected values calculated under multiple kind lottery model
2 X2 calculated as (Observed-Expected)2/Expected
Pf = P. falciparum, Pv = P. vivax, Pm = P. malariae, Po = P. ovale