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. 2011 Feb 18;11:18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2431-11-18

Table 2.

A 2 × 2 table for performance of HIV-1 pol FP-DBS PCR assay on archived FP-DBS samples

KNOWN HIV-1 STATUS

Positive Negative TOTAL
pol PCR HIV-1 results Positive 52 1 53

Negative 4 58 62

TOTAL 56 59 115

Samples were obtained from infants of known HIV-1 infection status (56 HIV-1 positive and 59 HIV-1 negative). The sensitivity of HIV-1 pol PCR FP-DBS assay on archived FP-DBS was 92.8% and specificity of 98.3%.