Research Article
Assessing the Performance of CareStart™ Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests in Northwest Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study
Table 4
Diagnostic performance of CareStart™ RDT against microscopy in Bahir Dar Zuria district, northwest Ethiopia, from January to May 2020.
| | Parasites | Sensitivity (%) | Specificity (%) | PPV (%) | NPV (%) | Kappa value |
| | P. falciparum monoinfection | 81.8 | 99.6 | 90.0 | 99.2 | 0.851 | | P. vivax monoinfection | 93.3 | 98.2 | 87.5 | 99.1 | 0.890 | | Mixed infection | 33.3 | 99.6 | 50.0 | 99.2 | 0.394 | | Overall Plasmodium infection | 93.2 | 98.6 | 93.2 | 98.6 | 0.918 |
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