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

Table 2 Agreement of malaria tests among 852 OPD patients with all three test results available, Rourkela 2016–2017

RDT	Microscopy	PCR	Number (%)	Species	Report of recent malaria treatment
Positive	Negative	Negative	3 (0.4)	2 Pf & 1 Pf + Pv	2 Pf in previous month
Positive	Positive	Negative	3 (0.4)	1 Pf & 2 Pv	1 Pv 4 months before
Positive	Negative	Positive	2 (0.2)	1 Pf & 1 Pv	1 Pf in previous month
Positive	Positive	Positive	20 (2.3)	14 Pf, 5 Pv, 1 Pm*	2 Pf and 1 Pv in previous month
Negative	Positive	Negative	0
Negative	Positive	Positive	1 (0.1)	1 Pf	None
Negative	Negative	Positive	23 (2.7)†	All Pf	None
Negative	Negative	Negative	800 (93.9)		30 (3.8%) in previous month

Abbreviations: Pf: P. falciparum, Pv: P. vivax, Pm: P. malariae, RDT: rapid diagnostic test, PCR: polymerase chain reaction
*P. malaria by PCR, P. vivax by RDT and microscopy
† Sub-patent malaria

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