Research Article

Molecular Detection of Plasmodium falciparum Infection in Matched Peripheral and Placental Blood Samples from Delivering Women in Libreville, Gabon

Table 3

Distribution of pair samples PCR results according to IPTp-SP coverage.

All Low IPTp coverage High IPTp coverage
() () ()
% %%

Concordant negative 3 7 3 120 00,30
Concordant positive 38 86 19 7919 950,28
Neg* peripheral/pos** placental 1 2 1 40 0NA***
Pos peripheral/neg placental 2 4 1 41 5NA

negative; positive; not applicable.