Enteric Protozoan Parasitosis and Associated Factors among Patients with and without Diabetes Mellitus in a Teaching Hospital in Ghana

Table 5

Agreement between the different techniques in detecting protozoan parasites using the wet mount preparation technique as a reference.

Diagnostic test		Direct wet mount		% Sensitivity (95% CI)	% Specificity (95% CI)	% PPV (95% CI)	% NPV (95% CI)	% Accuracy (95% CI)	Kappa index (95% CI)
		−	+
		n (%)	n (%)
Formol-ether concentration	−	198 (94.29)	0 (0.00)	100.00	94.29 (91.35–97.22)	71.43 (65.71–77.14)	100.00	95(88.54–98.13)	0.805 (0.699–0.910)
	+	12 (5.71)	30 (100.00)
Modified Ziehl–Neelsen staining	−	174 (82.86)	20 (66.67)	33.33 (27.37–39.30)	82.86 (78.09–87.63)	21.74 (16.52–26.96)	89.69 (85.84–93.54)	76.7 (67.79–84.22)	0.132 (−0.012–0.275)
	+	36 (17.14)	10 (33.33)