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Table 2 Agreement between results of the five ELISA kits on sera from candidate blood donors

From: Risk of transfusion-transmitted malaria: evaluation of commercial ELISA kits for the detection of anti-Plasmodium antibodies in candidate blood donors

Pair of ELISA kits

% agreement

Cohen’s k (p-value)

BioRad vs. Dia.Pro

94.4

0.875

(< 0.0001)

BioRad vs. Euroimmun

88.9

0.7647

(< 0.0001)

Dia.Pro vs. Euroimmun

86.1

0.7073

(< 0.0001)

BioRad vs. DRG

77.1

0.4928

− 0.0018

Dia.Pro vs. DRG

74.3

0.4395

− 0.0022

DRG vs. Euroimmun

68.8

0.3905

− 0.0078

Euroimmun vs. Novatec

50.0

0.2202

− 0.0078

DRG vs. Novatec

48.6

0.2115

− 0.0098

BioRad vs. Novatec

47.2

0.1972

− 0.0108

Dia.Pro vs. Novatec

41.7

0.1572

− 0.0234