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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2011 Nov;71(3):236–243. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2011.07.012

Table 3.

a. Agreement between TST and IFN-γ
Test Results 5mm 10mm
Positive TST/Positive QFT-IT 27 25
Negative TST/Negative QFT-IT 106 110
Positive TST/Negative QFT-IT 6 2
Negative TST/Positive QFT-IT 41 43
Agreement % 73.9% 75%
k (95% CI) 0.38 (0.23–0.53) 0.40 (0.24–0.55)
b. Agreement between TST and IP-10
Test Results 5mm 10mm
Positive TST/Positive IP-10 25 22
Negative TST/Negative IP-10 89 91
Positive TST/Negative IP-10 5 3
Negative TST/Positive IP-10 51 54
Agreement % 67.1 66.5
k (95% CI) 0.29 (0.14–0.44) 0.28 (0.12–0.43)
c. Agreement between IFN-γ and IP-10
Tests IP-10
    QFT-IT Positive Negative Total
Positive 56 8 64
Negative 20 86 106
Total 76 94 170
Agreement % 83.5
K (95% CI) 0.66 (0.55–0.78)

QFT-IT - QuantiFERON TB-Gold in-tube

IP-10 – Interferon gamma inducible protein-10

TST- Tuberculin Skin test

CI – Confidence interval

k – kappa

% - Percentage