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Table 8 Prevalence’s scenarios

From: A multi-country comparative study of two treponemal tests for the serodiagnosis of syphilis amongst men who have sex with men (MSM): Chemo-luminescent assay vs Treponema pallidum particle agglutination assay

 

value

95% CI

value

95% CI

value

95% CI

value

95% CI

Prevalence

2%

-

-

5%

-

-

10%

-

-

24%

-

-

Sensitivity

99.7%

98.5

100

99.7%

98.5

100

99.7%

98.5

100

99.7%

98.5

100

Specificity

99.4%

98.7

99.7

99.4%

98.7

99.7

99.4%

98.7

99.7

99.6%

99.1

99.9

ROC area

0.996

0.992

0.999

0.996

0.992

0.999

0.996

0.992

0.999

0.997

0.994

1

PPV

76.6%

59.9

86.2

89.4%

79.4

94.1

94.7%

89.1

97.1

98.9%

96.9

99.5

NPV

100%

100

100

100%

99.9

100

100%

99.8

100

99.9%

99.4

100