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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 31.
Published in final edited form as: Dalton Trans. 2017 Oct 31;46(42):14452–14460. doi: 10.1039/c7dt01189j

Table 1.

Examples of clinical studies with 99mTc-labeled ciprofloxacin

Infection type No. Patients Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) Ref.
Foot infection/type 2 diabetes mellitus 25 66 86 7
Gastrointestinal/abdominal infections 21 79 91 8
Orthopedic infection 22 85 92 9
Osteoarticular infection 27 100 38 6
Osteoarticular infection 94 98 100 10
Osteomyelitis 48 81 87 11
Osteomyelitis 45 97 80 5
Postoperative spine infection 22 78 69 12
Prosthetic joint infections 16 86 78 13
Pulmonary tuberculosis 21 80 90 14
Septic arthritis 25 94 47 15
Spinal infection 11 82 87 16
Tuberculous osteomyelitis 14 93 71 17