Table 8.
Sensitivity and specificity of microscopy and CareStart™ Malaria 2 line pLDH (Pan) compared to sensitive species PCR genotyping
| Microscopy | CareStart™ Malaria 2 line pLDH (Pan) | |||
| Sensitivity | Specificity | |||
| Overall | 91.6 [88.3-94.0] |
90.0 [85.7-93.1] |
87.7 [84.1-90.6] |
87.0 [82.4-90.6] |
| PF monoinfection | 91.1 [84.8-95.0] |
97.9 [96.2-98.8] |
90.8 [84.6-94.6] |
- |
| PV monoinfection | 90.8 [86.3-94.0] |
93.9 [91.2-95.8] |
90.4 [85.7-93.6] |
- |
Note
PFG/PVG counted as a positive microscopy result for the purposes of this analysis
MP counted as negative