Table 3. Sensitivity, specificity of microscopy and LAMP for genus Plasmodium and P. falciparumdetection. Nested PCR results were used as the reference (gold standard) for comparison.

	Method	Sensitivity	95% CI Sensitivity	Specificity	95% CI Specificity
Genus Plasmodium	Microscopy	100%	96.-1-100%	93%	68.2-100%
	LAMP	99%	94.8-99.9%	100%	76.1-100%
P. falciparumspecies	Microscopy	95%	87.0-98.4%	97%	87.0-99.7%
	LAMP	90%	80.6-94.9%	93%	82.3-97.6%