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. 2017 Aug 7;16:317. doi: 10.1186/s12936-017-1962-1

Table 1.

Example re-sample results

Outcome Total Unique
Index cases 354 NA
Households searched 549 401
Persons tested 284 203
True positives found 155 112
False positives found 1 1
True negatives found 122 89
False negatives found 1 1

The total column presents results based on the assumption that each targeted household and individual are searched multiple times if they are identified by association with multiple index cases, whereas the unique column assumes that houses and individuals can only be searched once in a given search period