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Table 1 Reported false positivity in CSP-ELISA assays

From: False positive circumsporozoite protein ELISA: a challenge for the estimation of the entomological inoculation rate of malaria and for vector incrimination

Country (Reference)

Specimen origin

Number of ELISA positive specimens/Number of specimens tested

Number of specimens confirmed by PCR

Blood specimens tested*

Thailand [15]

Cow blood

12/16

0

 

Pig blood

3/12

0

Senegal [13]

Cow blood

21/56

0

Mosquito head-thorax specimens tested

Gabon [37]

An. gambiae s.s.

  
 

An. moucheti

28/1535

18

 

An. funestus

  

South-Africa [12]

An. demeilloni

44/unkown

3

 

An. marshalli

6/unknown

1

 

An. rivulorum

4/unknown

2

South-Africa [14]

An. parensis

20/149

0

Cameroon [36]

An. gambiae s.s.

  
 

An. funestus

298/2773

263

 

An. nili

  
  1. * ELISA was performed on cow and/or pig blood because false positivity was suspected in Anopheles species that were suspected to have fed on cows or pigs.