TABLE 2.
Kappa values of diagnostic tests for detection of anti-Brucella antibodies in odontocetes
| Test | Kappa values witha:
|
||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iELISA (n = 179) | cELISA (n = 179) | gELISA (n = 178) | RBT (n = 179) | IF (n = 179) | DB (n = 179) | IF + RBT (n = 147) | IF + DB (n = 149) | IF + DB + RBT (n = 130) | |
| iELISA | 0.617 | 0.661 | 0.763 | 0.758 | 0.631 | 0.939 | 0.833 | 0.950 | |
| cELISA | 0.417 | 0.638 | 0.578 | 0.519 | 0.755 | 0.663 | 0.799 | ||
| gELISA | 0.607 | 0.527 | 0.440 | 0.708 | 0.586 | 0.722 | |||
| RBT | 0.619 | 0.597 | 0.735 | ||||||
| IF | 0.664 | ||||||||
| DB | 0.759 | ||||||||
a
The number of samples in the columns combining assays corresponds to a cumulative value from which both samples are consistent in the result (either all positives or all negatives).