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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2026 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Food Res Int. 2024 Nov 27;200:115424. doi: 10.1016/j.foodres.2024.115424

Table 3:

Contingency table of the positive-negative results for Campylobacter spp. obtained by culture and qPCR of the chicken meat samples from Peruvian traditional markets in the evaluated regions.


Culture Total

qPCR Positive Negative

Positive 25 43 68
Negative 0 22 22

Total 25 65

Parameters of qPCR for diagnosis of positive samples (using culture as gold standard): 100% sensitivity, 34% specificity, 37% positive predictive value, and 100% negative predictive value.