Table 8.
Hospital antimalarial treatment based on real time PCR
| Real time PCR results as standard reference | Hospital laboratory Microscopic inspection of blood smear | Expert Microscopy results | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | Positive | Negative | |
| Positive PCR | 62 | 100 | 90 | 71 |
| Negative PCR | 10 | 104 | 13 | 102 |
| Treatment of positives n (%) | 60 (83.3) | 55 (53.4) | ||
| Treatment of RT-PCR positives | 74 (45.7) | 74 (45.9) | ||
| Treatment of RT-PCR negative | 21 (18.4) | 21 (18.3) | ||
| Treatment of true positive n (%) | 54 (87.1) | 51 (56.7) | ||
| Treatment of true negative n (%) | 15 (14.4) | 17 (16.7) | ||
| Treatment of false positive n (%) | 6 (60.0) | 4 (30.8) | ||
| Treatment of false negative n (%) | 20 (20.0) | 23 (32.4) | ||
| Non-treatment of real time PCR negatives | 93 (81.6) | 94 (81.7) | ||
Treatment = Treatment with AL