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. 2007 Feb 7;45(4):1167–1174. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01988-06

TABLE 6.

Sensitivities, specificities, PPV, and NPV of phenotypic methods for detection of ESBL production with molecular identification as the reference method for E. coli, K. oxytoca, and K. pneumoniae isolates (n = 104)

Detection method Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) PPV (%) NPV (%)
MicroScan 98.6 51.5 81.4 94.4
Phoenix 100.0 51.5 81.6 100.0
VITEK 2 84.5 93.9 96.8 73.8
DAM 94.4 72.7 88.1 85.7
DDS 94.4 97.0 98.5 88.9
Etest ESBL 98.6 72.7 88.6 96.0