Table 4.

Sensitivity and specificity of malaria LAMP in truly positive and negative malaria samples according to the case definitions as presented in the Materials and Methods section

	Sensitivity	Specificity
Plasmodium genus LAMP	96.3% (234/243)	98.9% (277/280)
P. falciparum LAMP	71.0% (154/217)	90.8% (278/306)
P. vivax LAMP	82.4% (14/17)	95.3% (482/506)
P. malariae LAMP	100% (6/6)	100% (517/517)
P. ovale LAMP	100% (7/7)	98.8% (511/517)
P. knowlesi LAMP	n.a.	92.9% (486/523)

n.a. = not assessable.