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. 2006 Mar 9;6:61. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-61

Table 3.

Estimated posterior values of the misclassification between infection categories in humans.

Estimated infection status Observed classification Posterior probability of being in the observed
infection class given the estimated infection
status in % (95% Bayesian credible interval)
Not infected Not infected 99.3 (98.8 – 99.8)
Not infected Lightly infected 0.6 (0.1 – 1.1)
Not infected At least moderately infected 0.1 (0.0 – 0.2)
Lightly infected Not infected 57.9 (52.2 – 64.1)
Lightly infected Lightly infected 36.6 (31.8 – 41.1)
Lightly infected At least moderately infected 5.5 (3.1 – 7.9)
At least moderately infected Not infected 12.3 (5.1 – 20.7)
At least moderately infected Lightly infected 26.5 (17.5 – 35.9)
At least moderately infected At least moderately infected 61.2 (48.3 – 73.6)