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Table 4 Over all agreement of RDT and site level microscopy against the result of Expert Microscopists (n = 365)

From: Significant number of Plasmodium vivax mono-infections by PCR misidentified as mixed infections (P. vivax/P. falciparum) by microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests: malaria diagnostic challenges in Ethiopia

Results

Expert microscopists

Agreement

Kappa

Kappa interpretation

Pv

Pv/Pf

Total

RDT

Pv

279

50

329

81.37%

0.249

Fair

Pv/Pf

18

18

36

Total

297

68

365

Site level microscopists

Pv

279

48

327

82.19%

0.286

Fair

Pv/Pf

18

20

38

Total

297

68

365