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Table 6 Performance characteristics of the two malaria rapid diagnostic tests by production lot, Magaria, Niger, 2017–2018

From: Clinical diagnostic evaluation of HRP2 and pLDH-based rapid diagnostic tests for malaria in an area receiving seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Niger

 

Test

High season

Low season

Lot number

Na

Value

95% CI

Na

Value

95% CI

Sensitivity

pLDH

246

99.2

97.0–99.9

155

91.0

85.3–95.0

MN16C61

129

99.2

95.7–100

56

87.5

75.9–94.8

MN16E61

117

99.1

95.2–100

48

89.6

77.3–96.5

MN16G62

51

96.1

86.5–99.5

HRP2

246

99.2

97.1–99.9

155

85.8

79.3–90.9

05CDB181A

226

99.1

96.8–99.9

05CDB101A

69

84.1

73.3–91.8

05CDB232A

86

87.2

78.3–93.4

Specificity

pLDH

293

58.0

52.1–63.8

1252

92.6

91.1–94.0

MN16C61

131

57.4

48.4–66.0

353

94.6

91.7–96.7

MN16E61

162

58.5

50.4–66.2

442

91.4

88.4–93.8

MN16G62

457

92.3

89.5–94.6

HRP2

293

57.4

51.5–63.1

1252

93.5

91.9–94.8

05CDB181A

269

56.2

50.0–62.2

05CDB101A

487

93.0

90.4–95.1

05CDB232A

765

93.7

91.8–95.3

  1. Production lots 05CDB078A (24 participants) and 05FDC006A (20 participants) of the HRP2 RDT were also used during the high season, but given the small number of tests, lot-specific characteristics are not reported here. This explains the slight differences between the overall and lot-specific performance of the HRP2 tests in the high season
  2. aFor sensitivity, N represents all true positives; for specificity, N represents all true negatives tested with a given production lot