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Performance of Paracheck™-Pf, SD Bioline malaria Ag-Pf and SD Bioline malaria Ag-Pf/pan for diagnosis of falciparum malaria in the Central African Republic
I read with interest the article published in your journal with the title "Performance of Paracheck-Pf ™, SD Bioline Malaria Ag-Pf and SD Bioline malaria Ag-Pf/pan for diagnosis of falciparum malaria in the Central African Republic . "
However I make a few comments:
which formula is used for the sample size calculation.
the number of samples in each slice of parasitemia for each test is not reported.
a table comparing the pairwise tests would be more appropriate to mount a significant difference or not according to the threshold.
From this comments, I thing the conclusion can be reconsidered.
sample size calculation
7 March 2014
Sir;
I read with interest the article published in your journal with the title "Performance of Paracheck-Pf ™, SD Bioline Malaria Ag-Pf and SD Bioline malaria Ag-Pf/pan for diagnosis of falciparum malaria in the Central African Republic . "
However I make a few comments:
- which formula is used for the sample size calculation.
- the number of samples in each slice of parasitemia for each test is not reported.
- a table comparing the pairwise tests would be more appropriate to mount a significant difference or not according to the threshold.
From this comments, I thing the conclusion can be reconsidered.Regards
Competing interests
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