Table 3.
Comparison of evaluation reports of various RDTs done in the recent years.
| Dipstick | Standard | Population | Sensitivity (%) |
Specificity (%) |
Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CareStart (Access Bio, Princeton, NJ, USA) | GTTS* | Southwestern Uganda | 95.6 | 91.5 | [154] |
| Vistapan (Mitra, New Delhi, India) | 91.9 | 89.6 | |||
| Parabank ( Orchid/Zephyr, Goa, India) | 84.7 | 94.3 | |||
| Paracheck pf (Orchid/Zephyr, Goa, India) | 94 | 87.3 | |||
| Optimal-IT (DiaMed, Cressier, Switzerland) | GTS** | Gabon Children under 11 years |
94 | 97 | [155] |
| Acon (Acon Labs, San Diego, CA, USA) | 94 | 90 | |||
| PALUTOP+4 (ALL.DIAG, Strasbourg, France) | GTTS* and PCR | Madagascar | 95.4 | 97.1 | [156] |
| Optimal-IT (DiaMed, Cressier, Switzerland) | 75.8 | 99.0 | |||
| ParaHIT f test (Span Diagnostic Ltd., Surat, India) | GTTS* and PCR | Tanzania | 69.2 | 100 | [157] |
| Malaria Pf | GTTS* | Uganda | 98 | 72 | [135] |
| Paracheck Pf (Orchid Biomedical Systems, Goa, India) | GTTS* | Kenya | 91.7 | 96.7 | [158] |
| Malar-Check_Pf test | GTS** | Brazil | 97.4% | 88.5% | [159] |
| Makromed Dipstick Assay | PCR | Canada | 97.0% | 96.0% | [160] |
| ParaSight-F (Becton Dickinson, USA) | Thin blood smears and Quantitative Buffy Coat malaria test |
France | 94% | 99% | [161] |
| ParaSight-F (Becton Dickinson, USA) | Microscopy | Iquitos, Peru, and Maesod, Thailand | 95% | 86% | [162] |
| Paracheck Pf (Orchid Biomedical Systems) | Microscopy | India | 93% | 84% | [163] |
| ParaHIT-f (Span Diagnostics) | GTS** | Tanzania | 90.7% | 73.5% | [164] |
| ParaHIT-f (Span Diagnostics) | Microscopy | India | 87.5% | 97% | [163] |
**Giemsa thick smear.
*Giemsa thick and thin smear.