Prevalence of malaria among febrile patients and assessment of efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine and artesunate-amodiaquine for uncomplicated malaria in Dolisie, Republic of the Congo

Table 2 Performance of the rapid diagnostic test used in the study

Reference method	RDT positive	RDT negative	Total
Microscopy positive	263	3	266
Microscopy negative	60	668	728
Total	323	671	994

The performance of the Standard Diagnostic Malaria AG Pf HRP2/pLDH rapid diagnostic test (RDT) compared to microscopy (reference method) was as follows: sensitivity, 98.9%; specificity, 91.8%; positive predictive value, 81.4%; and negative predictive value, 99.6%. The kappa coefficient was 0.86, which corresponds to an “almost perfect agreement” between the two diagnostic methods, according to the classification proposed by Landis and Koch [29]

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