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. 2018 Feb 1;12(2):e0006228. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006228

Correction: An ImmunoSignature test distinguishes Trypanosoma cruzi, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and West Nile virus seropositivity among asymptomatic blood donors

The PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Staff
PMCID: PMC5794065  PMID: 29389963

There are errors in Tables 35 which arose during typesetting. The publisher apologizes for these errors.

Table 3. Top ranking alignments of informative library peptides to the T. cruzi proteome.

T. cruzi protein Total
Score
Target 20mer # peptide hits TrTrypDB Gene ID
1 Mucin: TcMucII* 3473 TRAPSRLREVDGSLGSSAWV 63 TcCLB.509753.300
2 Uncharacterized protein 3329 RRLSYRLRKREDGESYESYL 59 TcCLB.510575.140
3 Uncharacterized protein 3181 VPVLRVVDAEADERERNGAG 56 TCSYLVIO_001012
4 Calmodulin* 3096 TEVDVREALRVLDADGDGFL 57 TcCLB.510121.50
5 Uncharacterized protein 3091 SYRQQRYVDALRFALEEDHE 56 TcCLB.508269.50
6 Mucin: TcMucII* 3032 RAPSRLREFDGSLSSSAWVC 56 TcCLB.506741.110
7 Uncharacterized protein 3007 KLRQLDFVEDVLRKHPDKVE 52 TcCLB.507011.170
8 Dispersed gene family protein 1 (DGF-1)* 2983 HRGGLEALLRDGEDGDEDAQ 58 TcCLB.509735.84
9 Uncharacterized protein 2973 LPAQDSVVVRRLVDGQAPLR 51 TcCLB.506267.48
10 Vacuolar protein sorting-associated protein (Vps26) 2966 ERSPGLLGRLLRKVDGCDVR 52 TCSYLVIO_008174

* The families in which these proteins are members have been previously identified as antigenic

Table 5. Confusion matrix and performance estimates of the multiclass prediction model.

IST Classification Blood Bank Confirmed Diagnosis Performance Summary
T. cruzi + HBV+ HCV+ WNV+ Sensa Specb AUC
T. cruzi+
77 3 1 2 93% 96% 0.98
HBV+
3 79 12 2 82% 96% 0.96
HCV+
0 3 55 2 92% 94% 0.95
WNV+
8 3 3 82 85% 97% 0.97
Totals
88 88 71 88 Overall accuracy = 87%

aSens, sensitivity

bSpec, specificity

Table 4. Binary classification of each of four disease classes versus a combined class of the remaining three.

Classes AUC Sensitivity@
90% speca
Specificity@
90% sensb
Accuracy@
speca=sensb
Model size
(k)
T. cruzi vs.
Other
0.97
(0.96-0.98)
92%
(90%-94%)
94%
(90%-96%)
92%
(90%-92%)
50
HBV vs.
Other
0.94
(0.93-0.95)
85%
(78%-90%)
85%
(78%-90%)
87%
(85%-90%)
16000
HCV vs.
Other
0.96
(0.94-0.97)
90%
(86%-94%)
91%
(82%-96%)
90%
(88%-93%)
100
WNV vs.
Other
0.96
(0.95-0.97)
87%
(78%-94%)
88%
(84%-92%)
89%
(86%-91%)
1000

aspec, specificity

bsens, sensitivity

Reference


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