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. 2012 Mar 28;8:36. doi: 10.1186/1746-6148-8-36

Table 2.

Infection status based specifications of bead-based assay and ELISA tests calculated by ROC analysis

ROC analysis
Maximum Youden Index

test AUC SE P 95% CI Cut-off Se Sp

BBA-TOX 0.911 0.015 < 0.001 0.881-0.940 13.90 0.86 0.96

E1-TOX 0.837 0.018 < 0.001 0.800-0.873 0.369 0.64 0.95

E2-TOX 0.865 0.018 < 0.001 0.829-0.901 0.174 0.76 0.93

E3-TOX 0.930 0.013 < 0.001 0.904-0.956 26.90 0.84 0.99

BBA-TRI 0.855 0.018 < 0.001 0.819-0.890 4.65 0.68 1.00

E-TRI 0.879 0.016 < 0.001 0.849-0.912 0.018 0.72 0.95

ROC analyses of a T. gondii and T. spiralis bead-based assay, three T. gondii and one T. spiralis ELISAs using responses of porcine serum samples from an experimental infection calculated against their infection status. AUC, area under the curve; SE, standard error of AUC; P, P-value; 95% CI, interval at a 95% confidence; Se, sensitivity; Sp, specificity; BBA-TOX, T. gondii antigen coupled bead-based assay; E1-TOX, RIVM in-house T. gondii ELISA, E2-TOX: Safepath T. gondii ELISA, E3-TOX, ID-VET T. gondii ELISA; BBA-TRI, T. spiralis antigen coupled bead-based assay and E-TRI, Safepath T. spiralis ELISA