Table 1.
Outcome of the UW Western blot and Uni-Gold HSV-2 Rapid tests.
| Western Blot Result | N | Uni-Gold HSV-2 Rapid Result |
N | Uni-Gold HSV-2 Rapid Performance |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HSV-1 | HSV-2 | ||||
| Negative | Negative | 43 | Negative | 43 | Specificity: 98.7 NPV=98.7 |
| Positive | Negative | 33 | Negative Faint positive |
32 1 |
|
| Negative | Positive | 13 | Positive | 13 | Sensitivity: 94.4 PPV: 94.4 |
| Positive | Positive | 5 | Positive Negative |
4 1 |
|
| Negative | Indeterminate | 2 | Faint positive Negative |
1 1 |
|
| Positive | Indeterminate | 1 | Faint positive | 1 | |
| Indeterminate | Indeterminate | 3 | Negative | 3 | |
NPV, negative predictive value; PPV, positive predictive value.