TABLE 3.
Discrepant resolution by repeating illumigene M test or in-house qPCR to detect Plasmodium spp.
| Study IDa | Resultb |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microscopy |
illumigene malaria test |
In-house qPCR | Final | ||
| Original | Repeat | ||||
| N02 | P. vivax/P. ovalec | NEG | POS | POS (P. ovale) | TP |
| N17 | P. vivax | NEG | POS | POS (P. vivax) | TP |
| N93 | NEG | POS | Not doned | POS (P. falciparum) | TP |
| N55 | NEG | POS | NEG | NEG | TN |
| S32 | NEG | POS | Not doned | POS (P. falciparum) | TP |
| S62 | NEG | POS | Not doned | POS (P. falciparum) | TP |
| N119 | P. ovale | Invalid | Invalid | POS (P. ovale) | Invalid |
a
ID, identifier.
b
NEG, negative; POS, positive; TP, true positive; TN, true negative.
c
P. vivax/P. ovale implies the microscopist was unable to distinguish the two species and gave a slash call result.
d
illumigene test was not repeated if the real-time qPCR agreed with original M kit result.