Table 1. Comparison of microscopy and PCR for identifying Plasmodia spp. among patients with malaria during June 24, 2013–December 31, 2017, Kapit Hospital, Kapit, Malaysian Borneo*.
| Microscopy | PCR |
Total | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pf | Pk | Pm | Pv | Po | Pf + Pv | Pf + Pm | Pf + Po | Pk + Pf | Pk + Pv | Pk + Pcy | Pv + Po | ||
| P. falciparum | 93 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 103 |
| P. knowlesi | 7 | 810 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 865 |
| P. malariae | 6 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| P. ovale | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
|
P. vivax
|
0 |
0 |
0 |
48 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
55 |
| Total | 106 | 815 | 8 | 65 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1,047 |
* Pcy, Plasmodium cynomolgi; Pf, P. falciparum; Pk, P. knowlesi; Pm, P. malariae; Po, P. ovale; Pv, P. vivax.