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Comparison of LAMP to microscopy for malaria diagnosis (n = 680 blood samples)
| Method and result | No. of results for microscopy |
Sensitivity, % (95% CI) | Specificity, % (95% CI) | PPV, % (95% CI) | NPV, % (95% CI) | Diagnostic accuracy (%) | Agreement (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | |||||||
| Microscopy | ||||||||
| Positive | 199 | 0 | ||||||
| Negative | 0 | 481 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| LAMP | ||||||||
| Positive | 177 | 15 | ||||||
| Negative | 22 | 466 | 88.9 (83.4–94.5) | 96.9 (94.9–98.9) | 92.2 (87.3–97) | 95.5 (93.1–97.8) | 94.6 | 86.7 |
