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Table 1 Comparison of HPV detection between genital and oral samples and among genital samples (n = 198)

From: Low concordance of oral and genital HPV infection among male patients with sexually transmitted infections in Vietnam

 

No. of samples with

     

Samples compared

Indicated paired resultsa

% Agreement

Cohen’s Kappa

McNemar

 

+/+

–/–

+/–

–/+

Overall

Positive

Negative

(95% CI)

P value

Between genital and oral

 Genital/oral

5

129

53

11

67.7

13.5

80.1

0.01 (−0.09–0.12)

< 0.01

 Penile/oral

5

136

46

11

71.2

14.9

82.7

0.03 (−0.07–0.16)

< 0.01

 Urethral/oral

1

167

15

15

84.8

6.3

91.8

−0.02 (−0.11–0.13)

1.00

 Urinary/oral

1

174

8

15

88.4

8.0

93.8

0.02 (−0.08–0.19)

0.21

Among genitals

 Penile/urethral

10

141

41

6

76.3

29.9

85.7

0.20 (0.06–0.35)

< 0.01

 Penile/urinary

8

146

43

1

77.8

26.7

86.9

0.21 (0.09–0.34)

< 0.01

 Urethral/urinary

8

181

8

1

95.5

64.0

97.6

0.62 (0.34–0.83)

0.04

  1. Cohen’s Kappa: assessment of the concordance of HPV infection between paired samples
  2. McNemar test: assessment of the difference in the prevalence of HPV infection between paired samples
  3. +, presence of any HPV genotype; –, absence of all HPV genotypes; CI: confidence interval
  4. aThe result indicated on either side of each slash corresponds to the type listed in the same position in the first column