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Table 4 Frequencies of false positive, false negative and misclassified results obtained from RDTs with reference to microscopy and PCR results (including non-interpretable data), Cambodia, 2011

From: Performance of “VIKIA Malaria Ag Pf/Pan” (IMACCESS®), a new malaria rapid diagnostic test for detection of symptomatic malaria infections

RDTs

Frequency of

Total

False positive

False negative

Misclassified

Non-interpretable

CareStart Malaria RDT

0.8

4.9

1.4

0

7.1

VIKIA Malaria Ag Pf/Pan RDT

Reading time 10 min.

0.4

11.8

1.1

0.4

13.7

Reading time 15 min.

0.5

7.2

1.2

0

8.9

Reading time 20 min.

0.8

6.0

1.4

0

8.2

Reading time 30 min.

0.8

5.6

1.4

0

7.8

Reading time 60 min.

1.1

5.5

1.5

0

8.1