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Table 5 Risk of being false negative: PCR positive and HS-RDT negative by age, LLIN use and gender

From: Field performance of the malaria highly sensitive rapid diagnostic test in a setting of varying malaria transmission

 

HS-RDT false negatives n/N, (%)

OR (95% CI)

p value

AOR (95% CI)

p value

Age (years)

 ≤ 5

55/67 (82.1)

1

 

1

 

 5 to < 10

59/105 (56.2)

0.28 (0.13–0.58)

< 0.01

0.28 (0.13–0.6)

< 0.01

 10 to < 18

67/119 (56.3)

0.28 (0.14–0.6)

< 0.01

0.29 (0.14–0.6)

< 0.01

 18 to < 40

72/121 (59.5)

0.32 (0.16–0.66)

< 0.01

0.32 (0.16–0.7)

< 0.01

 40 to < 90

49/81 (60.5)

0.33 (0.16–0.7)

< 0.01

0.33 (0.15–0.7)

< 0.01

IRS

 No

 

1

   

 Yes

 

0.52 (0.3–1.03)

0.06

0.50 (0.3–1.0)

0.05

LLIN at night

 No

 

1

   

 Yes

 

0.89 (0.5–1.6)

0.69

 

Gender

    

 Male

 

1

  

 Female

 

0.89 (0.6–1.3)

0.53

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