Table 3 Performance of LM, RDT and LAMP for diagnosing malaria in peripheral blood samples
Test | Value (95% CI) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
nPCRa | Sensitivity | Specificity | PPV | NPV | Kappa | ||||
(+) | (−) | Total | |||||||
LM | |||||||||
(+) | 31 | 0 | 31 | 79.5% (64.5–89.2) | 100.0% (99.2–100.0) | 100.0% (89.0–100.0) | 98.4% (96.9–99.2) | 0.9 (0.8–1.0) | |
(−) | 8 | 492 | 500 | ||||||
RDT | |||||||||
(+) | 30 | 0 | 30 | 76.9% (61.7–87.4) | 100.0% (99.2–100.0) | 100.0% (88.6–100.0) | 98.2% (96.6–99.1) | 0.9 (0.8–1.0) | |
(−) | 9 | 492 | 501 | ||||||
LAMP | |||||||||
(+) | 39 | 0 | 39 | 100.0% (92.4–100.0) | 100.0% (99.2–100.0) | 100.0% (92.0–100.0) | 100.0% (99.2–100.0) | 1.00 (1.0–1.0) | |
(−) | 0 | 492 | 492 | ||||||