Evaluation of antibody serology to determine current helminth and Plasmodium falciparum infections in a co-endemic area in Southern Mozambique
Fig 4
Areas under the curve from receiver operating characteristic curve analysis for total IgE.
The performance of total IgE levels to detect helminth or Plasmodium falciparum infections in the whole population is shown in A and stratified by age in B. Dashed lines represent the accuracy thresholds: null if AUC < 0.5, low if 0.5 ≤ AUC > 0.7, moderate if 0.7 ≤ AUC > 0.9 and high if AUC ≥ 0.9. AUC: Area Under the Curve; CI: Confidence Interval; M: Microscopy; P: qPCR; MP: Microscopy and qPCR combined. Asc: Ascaris spp.; Hoo: Hookworm; Tri: Trichuris spp.; Str: Strongyloides stercoralis; Sch: Schistosoma spp. Hel: Helminths; Pf: Plasmodium falciparum.; Sh: Schistosoma haematobium; Sm: Schistosoma mansoni. Complementary information for this figure can be found in S2 and S3 Tables.