Table 2.

Misidentification of any Plasmodium species such as P. ovale by microscopic method.

No	Author, year	Microscopy	PCR/molecular techniques
		No. of P. ovale	True P. ovale cases	Number of misidentifications	Misidentified Plasmodium species
1	Alemu et al., 2014	0	–	–	–
2	Calderaro et al., 2013	8 (7/8)	7	1	P. falciparum
3	Chavatte et al., 2015	0	–	–	–
4	Cullen et al., 2014	7 (5/7)	5	2	1 P. falciparum, 1 P. malariae
5	Cullen et al., 2016	5 (2/5)	2	3	2 P. falciparum, 1 P. vivax
6	Díaz et al., 2015	0	–	–	–
7	Frickmann et al., 2019	25 (25/25)	25	0	–
8	Grossman et al., 2016	7 (2/7)	2	5	4 P. vivax, 1 P. falciparum + P. vivax
9	Gunasekera et al., 2018	9 (9/9)	9	0	–
10	Han et al., 2007	5 (5/5)	5	0	–
11	Humar et al., 1997	11 (10/11)	10	1	1 P. vivax
12	Loomans et al., 2019	46 (27/46)	27	19	10 P. falciparum, 3 P. vivax, 6 P. malariae
13	Maltha et al., 2010	73 (69/73)	69	4	4 P. vivax
14	Paglia et al., 2012	4 (3/4)	3	1	1 P. falciparum
15	Perandin et al., 2004	3 (2/3)	2	1	1 P. vivax
16	Putaporntip et al., 2009	0	–	–	–
17	Reller et al., 2013	17 (17/17)	17	0	–
18	Rougemont et al., 2004	3 (2/3)	2	1	1 P. falciparum
19	Whiley et al., 2004	6 (5/6)	5	1	1 P. vivax
20	Xu et al., 2016	14 (14/14)	14	0	–
21	Yusof et al., 2014	1 (0/1)	0	1	1 P. vivax
22	Zhou et al., 2014	0	–	–	–