Comparative Diagnostic Performance of Microscopy, SD-Bioline Rapid Diagnostic Test, and Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Detection of Malaria Infection among Pregnant Women at Delivery in Kumba Health District Area in the Southwest Region of Cameroon

Table 4

The percentage of diagnosed malaria cases among the HIV-negative and HIV-positive population using the different diagnostic methods.

	Mothers’ peripheral blood				Cord blood
	TFM (%)	RDT (%)	PCR (%)	Composite test (%)	PCR (%)
HIV-negative (n = 201)	7 (3.48)	47 (23.38)	99 (49.25)	40 (19.9)	4 (1.99)
HIV-positive (n = 26)	2 (7.69)	14 (53.85)	13 (50.00)	11 (42.31)	0 (0.00)
Total	9 (11.17)	61 (77.23)	112 (99.25)	51 (62.21)	4 (1.99)
value	0.275	0.002	1.000	0.022	1.000