Quality of malaria diagnosis and molecular confirmation of Plasmodium ovale curtisi in a rural area of the southeastern region of Ethiopia

Table 3 Confirmation and/or correction of the microscopic diagnosis by PCR

Species by PCR	627 samples detected by microscopy									Confirmation of the negative samples			Total	%	95 %CI	P value
	P. falciparum by microscopy N = 191			P. vivax by microscopy N = 429			P. falciparum + P. vivax by microscopy N = 7			N = 582
	N	%	95 % CI	N	%	95 % CI	N	%	95 % CI	N	%	95 % CI
Pf	183	95.8	92.96/98.64	48	11.2	8.2214.18	2	28.6	−4.88/62.08	88	15	12.1/17.9	321	26.5	24.01/28.99	0.000
Pv	2	1.05	−0.4/2.5	320	74.6	70.48/78.72	0	0	0	76	13	10.27/15.73	398	33	30.35/35.65	0.063
Po	1	0.5	−0.5/1.5	2	0.5	−0.17/1.17	0	0	0	20	3.4	1.93/4.87	23	2	1.21/2.79	–
Pf + Pv	2	1.05	−0.4/2.5	38	8.8	6.12/11.48	5	71.4	37.92/104.88	0	0	0	45	3.7	2.64/4.76	0.000
Pv + Po	0	0	0	1	0.23	−0.22/0.68	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.08	−0.08/0.24	–
Negatives	3	1.6	−0.18/3.38	20	4.7	2.7/6.7	0	0	0	398	68.4	64.62/72.18	421	35	32.31/37.69	0.000
Total	191			429			7			582			1209

The columns show the distribution of each of the species diagnosed by microscopy, and the rows show the distribution of species after the diagnosis by PCR

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