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Table 2 Sensitivity and specificity of HS-RDT and co-RDT, and paired t-test comparisons in each study

From: Malaria in pregnancy (MiP) studies assessing the clinical performance of highly sensitive rapid diagnostic tests (HS-RDT) for Plasmodium falciparum detection

Study

Sensitivity

Specificity

Parasite Density Geometric mean (0.95CI)

HS-RDT mean (0.95 CI)

Co-RDT mean (0.95 CI)

P value

HS-RDT mean (0.95 CI)

Co-RDT mean (0.95 CI)

P value

Reference method

HS-RDT + co-RDT -

HS-RDT

co-RDT

Benin

60.5 (52.7–67.8)

44.2 (36.9–51.9)

0.004

93.6 (91.7–95.3)

95.7 (94.0–97.0)

0.65

71.2 (47.0–107.9)

20.7 (10.8–39.6)

179.1 (108.3–296.2)

532.0 (324.0–874.0)

Colombia (1)

85.7 (70.6–93.7)

82.8 (67.3–91.9)

0.74

99.4 (98.5–99.8)

99.9 (99.2–100.0)

0.94

    

Colombia (2)

64.1 (47.2–78.8)

53.8 (37.2–69.9)

0.38

99.9 (99.3–100.0)

100.0 (99.6–100.0)

0.99

13.2 (4.4–39.0)

 

119.2 (58.0–244.70)

200.1 (114.4–350.0)

Indonesia

19.6 (13.9–26.8)

22.8 (16.7–30.3)

0.51

98.2 (93.1–99.7)

95.5 (89.4–98.3)

0.50

    

Kenya

54.7 (46.9–62.2)

49.4 (41.7–57.1)

0.34

95.8 (92.9–97.8)

96.1 (93.3–98.0)

0.94

43.0 (33.0–58.0)

 

103.0 (69.0–153.0)

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