Skip to main content

Table 3 Performance characteristics of Microscopy, RDTs and LAMP compared to nPCR for the diagnosis of malaria among study participants

From: Performance of loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) for the diagnosis of malaria among malaria suspected pregnant women in Northwest Ethiopia

Tools

Sensitivity

 % (95% CI)

Specificity

 % (95% CI)

PPV

 %

NPV

 %

Kappa value

Microscopy

90 (66.3–113.7)

98.7 (96.5–101.9)

90

98.7

0.887

RDTs

70 (33.8–106.2)

97.4 (92.9–101.9)

77.8

96.2

0.705

LAMP

100 (100)

93.5 (86.5–100.5)

66.7

100

0.768