TABLE 6.
Identification of the incorrect serogroup in round 2 of the leptospirosis MAT proficiency testing scheme related to geographic region and to participation in round 1 of the scheme
Region | No. of participants
|
No. of determinations
|
No. of incorrect determinations
|
% Incorrect determinations
|
No. of incorrect determinations per participant
|
|||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ongoing | New | Ongoing | New | Ongoing | New | Ongoing | New | Ongoing | New | |
Australasia | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North America | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Europe | 21 | 7 | 63 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 19 | 0.29 | 0.57 |
Asia and Pacific | 3 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 33 | 13 | 0.67 | 0.33 |
South and Central America | 6 | 9 | 15 | 27 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 30 | 0.17 | 0.11 |
Total | 34 | 26 | 96 | 74 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 19a | 0.26 | 0.54 |
χ21df = 3.254; P = 0.071.