Table 2 Comparison between plague RDT and bacteriological culture results for clinically-suspected plague cases tested at the CLP during the 2002–2007 period and 2017–2018 and 2018–2019 seasons
2002–2007 | 2017–2018 | 2018–2019 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | Bacteriology | Total | Total | ||||||||||
Pos. | Neg. | Miss. | Pos. | Neg. | Miss. | Pos. | Neg. | Miss. | |||||
Bubonic plague | |||||||||||||
RDT | Positive | 1328 | 324 | 0 | 1652 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 57 | 23 | 3 | 83 |
Negative | 0 | 667 | 0 | 667 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 71 | 2 | 73 | |
Missing | 0 | 0 | 280 | 280 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |||||
Total | 1328 | 991 | 280 | 2599 | 22 | 11 | 2 | 35 | 57 | 94 | 7 | 158 | |
Pneumonic plague | |||||||||||||
RDT | Positive | 40 | 45 | 0 | 85 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 25 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 15 |
Negative | 0 | 64 | 0 | 64 | 3 | 40 | 6 | 49 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 27 | |
Missing | 0 | 0 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Total | 40 | 109 | 27 | 176 | 4 | 63 | 8 | 75 | 8 | 33 | 2 | 43 | |