. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 7.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2009 Dec;81(6):1030–1034. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.09-0333

Table 2.

Sensitivity and specificity of the LAMP-based Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles arabiensis species identification method, in comparison to the conventional rDNA-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method

	No. mosquitoes (Asembo Bay, Iguhu)		Sensitivity	Specificity

Species	LAMP method	rDNA-PCR	(95% CI)^*	(95% CI)^*
An. gambiae	108 (1, 107)	116 (1, 115)	0.93 (0.87–0.96)	1.0 (0.89–1.00)
An. arabiensis	18 (14, 4)	18 (14, 4)	1.0 (0.82–1.00)	1.0 (0.97–1.00)
Hybrid	12 (1, 11)	7 (4, 3)
Not amplified	9 (7, 2)	6 (4, 2)
Total	147 (23, 124)	147 (23, 124)

95% CI refers to 95% confidence interval.