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Table 5 Performance of LM, RDT, LAMP for diagnosing malaria in placental blood samples

From: Diagnostic accuracy of loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) for screening malaria in peripheral and placental blood samples from pregnant women in Colombia

Placental blooda (N = 256)

Value (95% CI)

Sensitivity

Specificity

Kappa

LM

22.2% (6.3–54.7)

100.0% (98.5–100.0)

0.0 (ND)

RDT

22.2% (6.3–54.7)

100.0% (98.5–100.0)

0.0 (ND)

LAMP

88.9% (56.5–98.0)

100.0% (98.5–100.0)

0.9 (0.8–1.1)

  1. LM light microscopy, RDT rapid diagnostic test, LAMP loop-mediated isothermal amplification, CI confidence interval, N sample size, ND non-determined
  2. anPCR was used as the reference test
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Malaria Journal

ISSN: 1475-2875

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