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Table 2 Odds ratio for the association between parasite density in placental tissue and the detection of malaria infection by RDTs

From: Accuracy of One Step malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT) in detecting Plasmodium falciparum placental malaria infection in women living in Yaoundé, Cameroon

 

Positive HRP-II based RDT

Positive pLDH based RDT

Density of infected red blood cells in the placental tissue

8.9 E+014 [1,272,716–6E+023] p < 0.001

1e40 [8.7 E-055−1e40] p = 0.33

Parity

1.76 [0.93–3.32] p = 0.08

197.5 [0.03–1,315,700] p = 0.24

Mother age

0.87 [0.72–1.05] p = 0.15

0.10 [0.002–3.85] p = 0.25

IPTp usage

0.76 [0.46–1.34] p = 0.36

1.68E−014 [1.24E−045–2.30E+017] p = 0.38

LLINs usage

1.28 [0.55–6.50] p = 0.75

0.00 [1.82 E−012−4951.53] p = 0.31

  1. ORs with 95% CIs and p-values reported based on multi-variate logistic regression