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 6

Diagnostic performance of microscopy and SD-bioline RDT using nested PCR as reference standard.

	TFM	SD-bioline RDT
TP (nPCR = 112)	8	49
FP (nPCR = negative)	1	12
TN (nPCR = 115)	115	115
FN (nPCR = positive)	103	51
Sensitivity (95% CL)	7.21% (3.16–13.71%)	49.00% (38.86–59.20%)
Specificity (95% CL)	99.14% (95.29–99.98%)	90.55% (84.08–95.02%)
PPV (95% CL)	88.89% (50.49–98.44%)	80.33% (69.69–87.88%)
NPV (95% CL)	52.75% (51.39–54.11%)	69.28% (64.86–73.37%)
Accuracy (95% CL)	54.19% (47.46–60.79%)	72.25% (65.94–77.97%)
Cohen’s kappa value	0.064	0.431