Table 4.
Assay | Criterion | Countries | |||||
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Cameroon | Ethiopia | Côte d'Ivoire | Kenya | Uganda | Overall | ||
Kato-Katz | Sensitivity | 64% | 59% | 77% | 44% | 61% | 62% |
POC-CCA | Sensitivity | 87% | 92% | 78% | 86% | 89% | 86% |
Specificity | 74% | 94% | 92% | 70% | 56% | 72% | |
PCR | Sensitivity | 69% | |||||
Specificity | 91% |
Results are listed for each participating study country and for all countries combined.
POC-CCA = point-of-care assays for parasite circulating cathodic antigen; PCR = polymerase chain reaction.