From: Plasmodium malariae in the Colombian Amazon region: you don’t diagnose what you don’t suspect
Estimator/aspect | Sensitivity (%) [95% CI]b | Specificity (%) [95% CI]b | (PPV) (%) [95% CI]a,b | (NPV) (%) [95% CI]a,b | Accuracy (%) [95% CI]b | Youden index [95% CI]b | (AUC) [95% CI] |
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Plasmodium spp. | 99.81 [99.00, 100.49] | 23.79 [20.83, 26.74] | 50.60 [47.51, 53.68] | 99.39 [96.75, 101.65] | 57.15 [54.34, 59.99] | 0.24 [0.20, 0.27] | 0.611 [0.596, 0.626] |
Pf | 55.82 [46.27, 65.41] | 85.24 [83.21, 87.14] | 26.44 [20.61, 32.48] | 95.31 [93.98, 96.63] | 82.69 [80.60, 84.75] | 0.41 [0.31, 0.51] | 0.702 [0.653, 0.751] |
Pv | 90.18 [87.55, 92.67] | 44.13 [40.31, 48.06] | 57.60 [53.84, 61.49] | 84.23 [80.05, 88.24] | 65.18 [62.12, 68.25] | 0.34 [0.29, 0.39] | 0.647 [0.626, 0.667] |
Pf/Pv | 8.34 [−0.17, 27.93] | 92.03 [90.57, 93.45] | 1.51 [−0.02, 5.04] | 98.56 [97.64, 99.35] | 90.82 [89.21, 92.41] | 0.00 [−0.09, 0.20] | 0.502 [0.42, 0.584] |