Comparison of the Accuracy of Four Malaria Diagnostic Methods in a High Transmission Setting in Coastal Cameroon

Table 1

Performance of SD Bioline™ mRDT Pf/Pan test lines with change is parasite density.

S/N	Parasite density (range)	Control	Control+ PF line	Control + PF+pan line	Total
1	NPS	95.37(103/108)	4.63 (5/108)	0.0 (0/108)	108
2	≤500	10.87 (5/46)	84.78 (39/46)	4.35 (2/46)	46
3	501-1000	0.0 (0/18)	44.44 (8/18)	55.56 (10/18)	18
4	1001-5000	0.0 (0/29)	41.38 (12/29)	58.62 (17/29)	29
5	5001-10000	0.0 (0/49)	16.67 (8/48)	83.33 (40/48)	48
6	>10000	0.0 (0/34)	5.88 (2/34)	94.12 (32/34)	34
Total		108	74	101	283

Legend. PF: histidine rich protein 2 line (HRP2 line), Pan: parasite specific lactate dehydrogenase line, NPS: No Parasites Seen. Numbers under Control, Control + PF line, and Control + PF + pan line indicate percentages and the numbers in bracket indicate number of observed cases in each parasitaemia range. Samples with mixed infections as well as samples with other forms of malaria were removed from this analysis.