Performance Evaluation of Malaria Pf/Pv Combo Test Kit at Highly Malaria-Endemic Area, Southern Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study

<table class="table-group" id="tab3"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Performance characteristics</td><td class="align_center">Care Start™ malaria</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Sensitivity (95% CI)</td><td class="align_center">97.44% (91.04%–99.69%)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Specificity (95% CI)</td><td class="align_center">93.67% (85.84%–97.91%)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Positive predictive value (95% CI)</td><td class="align_center">93.83% (86.18%–97.97%)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Negative predictive value (95% CI)</td><td class="align_center">97.37% (90.82%–99.68%)</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Overall performance characteristics of Care Start™ in comparison with the standard light microscopy, Arba Minch, 2016.</div>

Journal of Tropical Medicine

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Table 3: Performance Evaluation of Malaria Pf/Pv Combo Test Kit at Highly Malaria-Endemic Area, Southern Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study 