TABLE 3.
Accordance and discordance rates (KCCR and 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 | 27.3 (6 of 22) | Positive | Negative | 4.5 (1 of 22) | ||
| Negative | Negative | 68.2 (15 of 22) | Negative | Positive | 0 (0 of 22) | |||
| Total | 95.5 | 4.5 | ||||||
| Tissue | Positive | Positive | 36.7 (11 of 30) | Positive | Negative | 3.3 (1 of 30) | ||
| Negative | Negative | 60.0 (18 of 30) | Negative | Positive | 0.0 (0 of 30) | |||
| Total | 96.7 | 3.3 | ||||||
a
Dry-reagent-based PCR (KCCR)/standard reference method (BNITM).