Malaria infection among adults residing in a highly endemic region from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Malaria Journal

Table 2 Qualitative agreement between HRP-2-based RDT and nested PCR assays for Plasmodium spp. in the study population (n = 420)

Detection methods*		COX3 nested PCR for Plasmodium spp.		Kappa [95% CI]	p-value
		Positive	Negative
		n (%)	n (%)
RDT	Positive	108 (75.5)	35 (24.5)	0.209 [0.118; 0.300]	< 0.001
RDT	Negative	134 (51.3)	127 (48.7)
Total		242 (59.9)	162 (40.1)

(*)Additional 11 PCR-positive and 5 PCR-negative participants who had an invalid RDT result are not shown in this table

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