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. 2014 Dec 18;53(1):248–254. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02690-14

TABLE 3.

Patient- and serum-based Asp-WB kit diagnostic indices according to the various clinical presentations of aspergillosis

Group n Asp-WB diagnostic indices
Asp-WB versus IPD*
Sensitivity (% [95% CI]) Yule Q (95% CI) DOR (95% CI) IPDb sensitivity (% [95% CI]) Agreement (% [95% CI]) Cohen's kappa (95% CI)
Patient-based analysis
    Aspergillus disease 131 91.6 (0.89–0.94) 0.99 (0.98–0.99) 185.22 (78.79–435.45) 86.3 (0.83–0.89) 84.0 (0.81–0.87) 0.192 (0.027–0.357)
        CPA 89 91.0 87.6 87.6
        Aspergilloma 10 90.0 100.0 90.0
        ABPA 32 93.8 78.1 71.9
    Aspergillus colonization 27 74.1 (0.66–0.82) 0.96 (0.94–0.97) 43.74 (15.65–122.20) 59.3 (0.50–0.69) 77.8 (0.70–0.86) 0.512 (0.155–0.869)
        Cystic fibrosis positive 15 100.0 73.3 73.3
        Cystic fibrosis negative 12 41.7 41.7 83.3
    Aspergillosis sensu latoa 158 88.6 (0.86–0.91) 0.98 (0.98–0.99) 119.06 (56.50–250.90) 81.6 (0.79–0.85) 82.9 (0.80–0.86) 0.332 (0.182–0.482)
Serum-based analysis
    Aspergillus disease 267 94.0 (0.93–0.95) 0.99 (0.99–1.00) 299.09 (135.62–659.57) 87.6 (0.86–0.90) 86.1 (0.84–0.88) 0.21 (0.10–0.31)
        CPA 197 93.4 87.3 82.5
        Aspergilloma 13 92.3 100.0 92.3
        ABPA 57 96.5 86.0 86.8
    Aspergillus colonization 41 73.2 (0.66–0.80) 0.95 (0.94–0.97) 41.75 (17.14–101.66) 53.7 (0.46–0.61) 75.6 (0.69–0.82) 0.50 (0.22–0.78)
        Cystic fibrosis positive 18 100.0 72.2 72.2
        Cystic fibrosis negative 23 52.2 39.1 78.3
    Aspergillosis sensu latoa 308 91.2 (0.90–0.93) 0.99 (0.98–0.99) 159.31 (80.22–316.40) 83.1 (0.81–0.85) 84.7 (0.83–0.87) 0.35 (0.25–0.45)
a

The Aspergillus disease and Aspergillus colonization groups are included in the aspergillosis sensu lato group.

b

IPD, immunoprecipitin detection assay.