Table 2.
Species distribution and geographical origin of the 590 samples used for evaluation of the CareStartTM Malaria HRP-2/pLDH (Pf/pan) Combo Test
| Species identification by microscopy corrected by PCR | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geography | P. falciparum | P. vivax | P. ovale | P. malariae | No parasites seen | |
| Africa (n = 444) | Eastern Africa | 18 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 10 |
| Northern Africa | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Middle Africa | 97 | 5 | 24 | 7 | 37 | |
| Southern Africa | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Western Africa | 145 | 4 | 27 | 6 | 25 | |
| Africa | 1 | |||||
| Asia (n = 54) | Eastern Asia | 1 | 3 | |||
| Southern Asia | 4 | 16 | 1 | 5 | ||
| South-Eastern Asia | 10 | 10 | 1 | |||
| Western Asia | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Asia | 1 | |||||
|
Latin America and the Caribbean (n = 12) |
Caribbean | 1 | 1 | |||
| South America | 6 | 1 | 3 | |||
|
Oceania (n = 4) |
Melanesia | 1 | 2 | |||
| Micronesia | 1 | |||||
| No data (n = 76) | 36 | 18 | 12 | 4 | 6 | |
| Total (n = 590) | 320 | 76 | 76 | 23 | 95 | |