Table 2

The level of agreement between the different PCR assays and the 'gold standard' Snounou nested PCR in trials with artificially infected and field-collected mosquitoes as determined by Cohen's Kappa measure of test association

Artificially infected

Field-collected

Method

n = 96

n = 269^a

Snounou nested

κ = 1

κ = 1

TaqMan

κ = 0.858

κ = 0.925

Tassanakajon

κ = 0.767

κ = 0.264

^aThese samples do not include those stored in ethanol/isopropanol

Bass et al. Malaria Journal 2008 7:177   doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-177