Table 2. Clinical laboratory evaluation of PureLyse^® sputum sample preparation.

All Samples		Comparator Methodb
			pos	neg
		45	24	21
PureLyse® Methoda	pos	22	22	0
	neg	23	2	21
Samples of ≥1 mL volume
		41	20	21
PureLyse® Methoda	pos	20	20	0
	neg	21	0	21

^aPureLyse^® sputum sample preparation of clinical sputum samples,

^bsample preparation of clinical sputum samples using the comparator method described by Halse et al.¹² followed by qPCR analysis.