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Table 1 Plasmodium infections among OPD patients as determined by RDT, microscopy and PCR, Rourkela 2016–2017

From: Dengue, chikungunya, and scrub typhus are important etiologies of non-malarial febrile illness in Rourkela, Odisha, India

Test

Total tested

P. falciparum positive (%)

P. vivax positive (%)

P. malariae positive (%)

Any species positive (%)

RDT

954

20 (2.1)

11 (1.2)

0 (0)

30 (3.1)

Microscopy

954

16 (1.7)

9 (0.9)

0 (0)

25 (2.6)

PCR

852

39 (4.6)

6 (0.7)

1 (0.1)

46 (5.4)