Table 3.
Difference in the number of days from infection to confirmed positive test result between the two antigen tests (PetChek® versus DiroCHEK®) within each serum type
| Serum Tested | Difference in # Days from Infection to Positive Resulta
PetChek® – DiroCHEK® |
p-value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Mean (days) | SDb | Min | Max | 95% CIc | |||
| L d | U d | |||||||
| Heated | 12 | 4.6 | 12.8 | ˗16 | 28 | ˗3.5 | 12.7 | 0.2405 |
| Unheated | 12 | 0.2 | 4.5 | ˗7 | 8 | ˗2.7 | 3.0 | 0.9009 |
aBig Head™ and JYD-34 isolate data were combined for each analysis
bSD = standard deviation
c95% CI = 95% Confidence Interval around the mean difference
dL = lower bound of 95% confidence interval; U = upper bound of 95% confidence interval