Table 4. Agreement between qPCR and ddPCR in detection of infections among 150 field samples.
| P. falciparum | P. vivax | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ddPCR | ddPCR | ||||||||||
| −/−/− | +/−/− | +/+/− | +/+/+ | −/−/− | +/−/− | +/+/− | +/+/+ | ||||
| qPCR | −/−/− | 90 | 16 | 5 | 8 | 106 | 7 | 3 | 1 | ||
| +/−/− | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||
| +/+/− | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| +/+/+ | 1 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 10 | |||
qPCR and ddPCR were run in triplicate. Cut off for positivity in ddPCR was set at 2 droplets positive.