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. 2008 Mar;72(2):168–174.

Table II.

Adjusted reliability measures to test agreement between agar dilution (AD) and E-test for 10 antimicrobials for 233 Campylobacter coli isolates recovered from 80 swine farms in Ontario

Categories
Agreement (%)
S, I, R
S, (I + R)a
(S + I), Rb
Antimicrobial A Ba Cb Weighted kappa Kappa PI BI PABAK Kappa PI BI PABAK
Ciprofloxacin 96 96 97 0.45 0.36 0.93 0.04 0.92 0.49 0.95 0.03 0.95
Azithromycin 73 73 73 0.25 0.25 0.59 0.27 0.46 0.25 0.59 0.27 0.46
Clindamycin 73 81 83 0.50 0.18 0.75 0.19 0.62 0.57 0.45 0.14 0.67
Erythromycin 78 91 85 0.58 0.13 0.89 0.09 0.82 0.62 0.49 0.13 0.71
Nalidixic Acid 15 18 82 0.15 0.02 0.07 0.82 −0.62 0.34 0.70 0.14 0.65
Ampicillin 27 33 79 0.22 0.05 0.03 0.67 −0.34 0.35 0.66 0.17 0.58
Chloramphenicol 75 75 97 0.17 0.03 0.64 0.25 0.5 −0.007 0.97 0.02 0.95
Gentamicin 99 99 ~100 0.00 0.00 0.99 0.00 0.98 0.00 0.99 0.00 0.99
Streptomycin 84 86 85 0.68 0.66 0.41 0.14 0.72 0.66 0.37 0.09 0.71
Tetracycline 76 84 79 0.66 0.67 0.25 0.16 0.68 0.58 0.12 0.20 0.57
a

Intermediate isolates were categorized as resistant.

b

Intermediate isolates were classified as susceptible.

A — susceptible, intermediate and resistant categories; PI — preference index; BI — bias index; PABAK — prevalence-adjusted bias-adjusted kappa.