Fig. 6: Clinical performance comparison of malaria diagnostic methods used in this study. | Nature Communications

Fig. 6: Clinical performance comparison of malaria diagnostic methods used in this study.

From: Sensitive near point-of-care detection of asymptomatic and submicroscopic Plasmodium falciparum infections in African endemic countries

Fig. 6: Clinical performance comparison of malaria diagnostic methods used in this study.The alt text for this image may have been generated using AI.

Comparison of the clinical performance of Dragonfly (a), LM (b) and RDTs (c) using whole blood finger prick samples, with DBS-qPCR as the gold-standard comparator. For each group, the number of true positives (TP), total positive cases, sensitivity rate with 95% CI, number of true negatives (TN), total negative cases, and specificity rate with 95% CI are provided. FP indicates the number of false positives, FN indicates the numbers of false negatives. Created in BioRender. Cavuto, M. (2025) https://BioRender.com/rwbh4tn. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.

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