Research Article
Enteric Protozoan Parasitosis and Associated Factors among Patients with and without Diabetes Mellitus in a Teaching Hospital in Ghana
Table 5
Agreement between the different techniques in detecting protozoan parasites using the wet mount preparation technique as a reference.
| Diagnostic test | Direct wet mount | % Sensitivity (95% CI) | % Specificity (95% CI) | % PPV (95% CI) | % NPV (95% CI) | % Accuracy (95% CI) | Kappa index (95% CI) | − | + | n (%) | n (%) |
| Formol-ether concentration | − | 198 (94.29) | 0 (0.00) | 100.00 | 94.29 (91.35–97.22) | 71.43 (65.71–77.14) | 100.00 | 95(88.54–98.13) | 0.805 (0.699–0.910) | + | 12 (5.71) | 30 (100.00) |
| Modified Ziehl–Neelsen staining | − | 174 (82.86) | 20 (66.67) | 33.33 (27.37–39.30) | 82.86 (78.09–87.63) | 21.74 (16.52–26.96) | 89.69 (85.84–93.54) | 76.7 (67.79–84.22) | 0.132 (−0.012–0.275) | + | 36 (17.14) | 10 (33.33) |
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