Noninvasive Approach of Plasmodium falciparum Molecular Detection for Malaria Surveillance in Malaria Endemic Areas in Cameroon

Table 3

Diagnostic performance of the different methods with saliva.

Test characteristic	Saliva-LAMP	Saliva-RT-LAMP
Sensitivities (%)	70.23	73.49
Specificities (%)	62.50	76.47
PPV (%)	90.76	93.84
NPV (%)	28.57	37.14
Observed agreements (%)	69.00	74.00
Expected agreements (%)	60.20	59.90
Kappa values	0.221	0.352

PPV: positive predictive values; NPV: negative predictive values.