Table 2 Identification of symptomatic malaria cases: comparison among the field light microscopy, the Optimal-IT RDT and the nested PCR.
Microscopy | Optimal-IT® | Nested PCR | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pf | Pnf | Negative | Pf | Pv | Pf + Pv | Negative | |
Negative | 3 | 10 | 157 | 9 | 23 | 0 | 138 |
P. falciparum | 45 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
P. vivax | 0 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 0 | 0 |
P. vivax + P. falciparum | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
Total | 56 | 98 | 157 | 53 | 107 | 13 | 138 |