Table 3 Agreement between the results of tuberculin skin testing with those for the Quantiferon®-TB Gold in-tube assay
TST-1 | Overall TST | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
negative | positive | Total | negative | positive | Total | |||
QFT | negative | n | 34 | 0 | 34 | 32 | 2 | 34 |
(%) | 65.4% | 0% | 65.4% | 61.5% | 3.8% | 65.4% | ||
positive | n | 15 | 3 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 18 | |
(%) | 28.8% | 5.8% | 34.6% | 17.3% | 17.3% | 34.6% | ||
Total | n | 49 | 3 | 52 | 41 | 11 | 52 | |
(%) | 94.2% | 5.8% | 100% | 78.8% | 21.2% | 100% | ||
kappa value | 0.21 | 0.49 | ||||||