Laboratory evaluation on the sensitivity and specificity of a novel and rapid detection method for malaria diagnosis based on magneto-optical technology (MOT)

Table 1 Overview of samples included in the evaluation of the MOT device.

Clinical description	Country of Origin	Number used for analysis
Healthy controls	The Netherlands	100
Microscopically confirmed malaria cases	Sudan	72
Microscopically confirmed malaria cases	Vietnam	8
Sickle cell anaemia patients*	Sudan	20
Sickle cell anaemia patients	Nigeria	5
Sickle cell anaemia patient	Tanzania	1
Arthritis patients	Tanzania	2
B-Thallesemia patients	Tanzania	2
Visceral leishmaniasis patients (returning travels)	The Netherlands	7
Total		217

* This set of samples was not analysed with microscopy, however RDT and PCR testing gave evidence that 3 patients in this group were in fact also suffering from a malaria infection.

ISSN: 1475-2875