TABLE 4.
Infection | No. of serum samples tested | No. of serum samples with the following TB Test Screen result:
|
Specificity (%) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Positive | Negative | Indeterminate | |||
Pneumonia | 16 | 15 | 1 | 100 | |
Bronchitis or bronchial asthma | 12 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 85.7 |
Malaria | 22 | 22 | 100 | ||
Typhoid | 18 | 18 | 100 | ||
Syphilis | 12 | 12 | 100 | ||
Gonorrhea | 18 | 18 | 100 | ||
Rheumatoid arthritis | 16 | 15 | 1 | 100 | |
Common cold | 14 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 87.5 |
Pulmonary aspergillosis | 15 | 14 | 1 | 100 | |
Lung abscess | 13 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 92.8 |
Total | 156 | 5 | 143 | 8 | 96.8 |