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. 2014 Oct 17;9(10):e108619. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108619

Table 2. Grade of concordance of specific IgE (sIgE) in serum and Basophil activation test (BAT).

Grade of concordance sIgE vs BAT
Allergic patients Total subjects
Ratio spearman test Ratio spearman test
nVenom 65.8% (27/41) 0.194 67.8% (38/56) 0.48***
rVes v 5 75% (27/36) 0.158 79.2% (42/53) 0.6057***
rVes v 3 48% (12/25) −0.2785 58.5% (24/41) −0.2036
rVes v 2 56% (14/25) −0.2543 56.1% (23/41) −0.2735
rVes v 1 68% (17/25) −0.1617 60%% (24/40) −0.0645

Statistically significant differences were defined as *P<0.05, **P<0.01 and ***P<0.001.