TABLE 2.
Accordance and discordance rates (BNITM testing)a
| Specimen | Result
|
% | % accordance | Result
|
% | % discordance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dry-reagent-based PCR | Standard reference method | Dry-reagent-based PCR | Standard reference method | |||||
| Swab | Positive | Positive | 31.6 (6 of 19) | Positive | Negative | 5.3 (1 of 19) | ||
| Negative | Negative | 63.2 (12 of 19) | Negative | Positive | 0 (0 of 19) | |||
| Total | 94.7 | 5.3 | ||||||
| Tissue | Positive | Positive | 18.8 (3 of 16) | Positive | Negative | 6.3 (1 of 16) | ||
| Negative | Negative | 56.3 (9 of 16) | Negative | Positive | 18.8 (3 of 16) | |||
| Total | 75.0 | 25.0 | ||||||
a
Dry-reagent-based PCR (BNITM)/standard reference method (BNITM).