Research Article
Assessing the Performance of CareStart™ Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests in Northwest Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study
Table 2
Prevalence of malaria by CareStart™ RDT and blood film microscopy in Bahir Dar Zuria district, northwest Ethiopia, from January to May 2020.
| Result | Diagnostic methods | Combined result | Care Start™ | Microscopy |
| P. falciparum | 10 (3.9%) | 11 (4.3%) | 12 (4.7%) | P. vivax | 32 (12.5%) | 30 (11.7%) | 32 (12.5%) | Mixed infection | 2 (0.8%) | 3 (1.2%) | 3 (1.2%) | Total positive | 44 (17.1%) | 44 (17.1%) | 47 (18.3%) | Negative | 213 (82.9%) | 213 (82.9%) | 210 (81.7%) |
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