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. 2012 Jun;50(6):2100–2103. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00252-12

Table 1.

Overall sensitivities and specificities of the LCTB assay versus a clinical diagnosis, MGIT culture results, and smear microscopya

Parameter Value for LCTB assay compared with:
Clinical diagnosis Culture Histology smear
Sensitivity (%) 52.1 64.3 100
Specificity (%) 93.7 84 78.8
a

Overall results, n = 39 cases.