Table 2.

Plasmodium vivax false-positive diagnoses

	Palutop+4®			Microscopy		RT-PCR
Identification	Pan	Pf	Pv	Diagnostic	Parasitaemia	Pf	Pv
146/1	−	+	+	Pf	0.8%	+	−
186/1	+	−	+	Pf	0.5%	+	−
81/3	+	+	+	Pf	1.4%	+	−
113/3	+	+	+	Pf	2.0%	+	−
146/3	+	+	+	Pf	0.06%	+	−

Pf = Plasmodium falciparum; Pv = Plasmodium vivax; RT-PCR = real-time polymerase chain reaction.