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. 2014 Oct 22;7:746. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-746

Table 3.

Summary of the validity and reliability of SD BIOLINE HIV / syphilis Duo kit

Sensitivity (95% CI) Specificity (95% CI) PPV (95% CI) NPV (95% CI)
Syphilis (%) 100.0 (79.1 - 100.0) 100.0 (97.7 - 100.0) 100.0 (79.1 - 100.0) 100.0 (97.7 - 100.0)
HIV* (%) 100.0 (75.9 - 100.0) 99.5 (96.9 - 99.9) 94.1 (69.2 - 99.7) 100.0 (97.7 - 100.0)

TPHA – Treponema pallidum hemagglutination assay; HIV algorithm - Determine, Statpak and UniGold tests run serially; Duo kit – SD BIOLINE HIV/syphilis duo kit.

*HIV-syphilis results were obtained from TPHA and HIV algorithm results.