Table 3.

Performance of the BinaxNOW compared with the real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction for S. pneumoniae autolysin gene (n = 96).

	S. pneumoniae LytA qPCR ( +)	S. pneumoniae LytA qPCR (−)	Total	p-value	Concordance (kappa)	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)
BinaxNOW ( +)	1 (1)	17 (18)	18 (19)	0.0017	0.02	18	75
BinaxNOW (−)	3 (3)	75 (78)	78 (81)
Total	4 (4)	92 (96)	96 (100)

qPCR- quantitative polymerase chain reaction and LytA-autolysin gene.

Numbers are values (%), p-values of ≤ 0.05 were considered significant.

P-value was determined using the McNemar test.