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Table 2 Comparison of AFS and qPCR for detecting M. tuberculosis in 129 bone samples

From: Clinical performance of quantitative PCR for the molecular identification of skeletal tuberculosis from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues

Methods

TP

FN

TN

FP

Sensitivity (%)

p-value

Specificity (%)

p-value

PPV (%)

NPV (%)

AFS

34

56

29

10

37.77

 

87.17

 

77.27

34.11

qPCR

44

46

39

0

48.88

0.175

100

0.280

100

45.88

  1. TP true positive, FN false negative, TN true negative, FP false positive, PPV positive predictive value, NPV negative predictive value
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BMC Infectious Diseases

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