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Table 2 Performance of potential diagnostic cut-offs

From: Prospective study of the serum Aspergillus-specific IgG, IgA and IgM assays for chronic pulmonary aspergillosis diagnosis

Assay (Unit)

Diagnostic cut-off

Sensitivity

Specificity

Youden’s J statistic

IgG (AU/mL)

70.3

81.0%

83.1%

0.641

82.7

78.6%

91.2%

0.698

89.3

78.6%

94.4%

0.729

91.8

76.2%

94.4%

0.706

118.6

71.4%

96.9%

0.683

IgA (U/mL)

6.1

71.4%

78.1%

0.496

7.2

69.0%

82.5%

0.515

8.2

64.3%

89.4%

0.537

9.8

57.1%

93.7%

0.509

10.7

52.4

95.0%

0.474

IgM (AU/mL)

53.3

61.9%

38.7%

0.007

66.5

52.4%

48.1%

0.005

73.3

50.0%

53.7%

0.038

81.9

45.2%

57.5%

0.027

84.0

42.9%

59.4%

0.022

GM (ug/L)

0.40

76.2%

45.6%

0.218

0.45

73.8%

51.2%

0.251

0.50

71.4%

58.1%

0.296

0.60

45.2%

65.0%

0.102

0.70

33.3%

73.1%

0.065