Table 2. Diagnostic performance of the CareStart malaria (HRP2 and HRP2/pLDH) and SD bioline malaria (HRP2/pLDH) RDT kit to microscopy.
| Gold standard Positive (N = 281) | Gold standard Negative (N = 172) | Sensitivity % (95% CI) |
Specificity % (95% CI) |
PPV % (95% CI) |
NPV % (95% CI) |
AUC (95% CI) |
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| RDT Positive (n) | RDT Negative (n) |
RDT Positive (n) | RDT Negative (n) |
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| Type of Malaria RDT | |||||||||
| CareStart (HRP2) | 276 | 5 | 58 | 114 | 98.2 (95.9, 99.4) | 66.3 (58.7, 73.3) | 82.6 (78.1, 86.5) | 95.8 (90.5, 98.6) | 0.82 (0.79, 0.86) |
| CareStart (HRP2/pLDH) | 276 | 5 | 58 | 114 | 98.2 (95.9, 99.4) | 66.3 (58.7, 73.3) | 82.6 (78.1, 86.5) | 95.8 (90.5, 98.6) | 0.82 (0.79, 0.86) |
| SD Bioline (HRP2/pLDH) | 276 | 5 | 53 | 119 | 98.2 (95.9, 99.4) | 69.2 (61.7, 76.0) | 83.9 (79.5, 87.7) | 96.0 (90.8, 98.7) | 0.84 (0.80, 0.87) |