Table 2 Prevalence of malaria and of mono-infections (1sp) detected by rapid test (RDT1 and RDT2), microscopic analysis (MA1 and MA2) and molecular diagnostics (MD) applied to children living in Tshimbulu (Western Kasai, DRC), and p values obtained by comparing the different results
Pos/ex | (%) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RDT1 | MA1 | MA1 1sp | RDT2 | MA2 | MA2 1sp | MD | MD 1sp | |
(80.9) | (81.2) | (79.2) | (78.2) | (80.0) | (54.8) | (82.8) | (73.7) | |
RDT1 | 0.937 | 0.406 | ||||||
238/294 | ||||||||
MA1 | 0.937 | 0.711 | 0.734 | |||||
242/298 | ||||||||
MA1 1sp | <0.0001 | 0.157 | ||||||
236/298 | ||||||||
RDT2 | 0.406 | 0.589 | ||||||
222/284 | ||||||||
MA2 | 0.711 | 0.589 | 0.505 | |||||
232/290 | ||||||||
MA2 1sp | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | ||||||
159/290 | ||||||||
MD | 0.734 | 0.505 | ||||||
164/198 | ||||||||
MD 1sp | 0.157 | <0.0001 | ||||||
146/198 | ||||||||