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. 2017 Aug 29;20(Suppl 6):21755. doi: 10.7448/IAS.20.7.21755

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Figure 3. — False negative diagnostic error rates (n = 28 studies, 40 reports).

LP: low prevalence; HP: high prevalence; SA: South Africa, discrepant results; ZAM: Zambia, discrepant results; VL: visceral Leishmaniasis; Data reported includes reports of misdiagnosis of HIV-negative statuses. Misdiagnoses of HIV-negative statuses were reported 28 studies (40 reports), total negative = 55, 626. Kufa et al. 2017 reported proportion misdiagnosed but did not report full sample size information.

Note Olaru et al. was exclusively among people with HIV on ART, accounting for the high rate of false negative diagnoses.