TABLE 4.
Discrepant resolution by repeating illumigene MP test and in-house qPCR to detect Plasmodium spp.
| Study IDa | Resultb |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microscopy |
illumigene malaria Plus test |
In-house qPCR | Final | ||
| Original | Repeat | ||||
| N118 | NEG | POS | Not donee | NEG | FP |
| N55 | NEG | POS | NEG | NEG | TN |
| N34 | NEG | POS | NEG | NEG | TN |
| S32 | NEG | POS | Not donec | POS (P. falciparum) | TP |
| S62 | NEG | POS | Not donec | POS (P. falciparum) | TP |
| N17 | P. vivax | Invalid | POS | Not doned | TP |
| N23 | P. vivax | Invalid | POS | Not doned | TP |
| N57 | NEG | Invalid | NEG | Not doned | TN |
| N59 | NEG | Invalid | NEG | Not doned | TN |
| N75 | NEG | Invalid | NEG | Not doned | TN |
| N80 | NEG | Invalid | Invalid | NEG | Invalid |
| N93 | NEG | Invalid | POS | POS (P. falciparum) | TP |
| S82 | P. ovale | Invalid | POS | Not doned | TP |
a
ID, identifier.
b
NEG, negative; POS, positive; TP, true positive; FP, false positive; TN, true negative.
c
illumigene test not repeated if real-time PCR agreed with original MP kit result.
d
qPCR was not done if illumigene MP repeat result was concordant with microscopy.
e
Insufficient sample volume to repeat test.