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Sensitivity and specificity expresessed as perecentarge of microscopy and ICTs (BINAXNOW and CARESTART) as alternately compared to QPCR and microscopy as gold standard method.
| Assay type | QPCR | Microscopy | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sensitivity | Specificity | Sensitivity | Specificity | |
| Microscopy | 86.22 | 99.63 | NA* | NA |
| BINAXNOW | 83.67 | 99.26 | 86.47 | 93.58 |
| CARESTART | 85.2 | 99.26 | 88.24 | 93.58 |
| QPCR | NA | NA | 99.41 | 90.88 |
* NA - Not Applicable
