DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i02.076

Pages: 784-786

Background: The Study was conducted in Department of Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College & Maharaja Yashwantrao Hospital Indore with sample of 100 patients with clinical suspicion of malaria. We conclude that microscopy positive in 32 patients while RDT in 39 patients & that in 31% cases both microscopy & RDTs results was same. Conclusion: The sensitivity and specificity of RDTs was 96.88% and 88.24% respectively. The measure of agreement i. e. Kappa value was 0.736 which was good agreement between microscopy and RDTs of malaria diagnosis. (Kappa value of 0.21–0.60 is a moderate, a kappa value of 0.61–0.80 a good and kappa > 0.80 an almost perfect agreement beyond chance.)