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. 2018 Mar 20;19:187. doi: 10.1186/s13063-018-2566-y

Table 2.

Biotesting systems used

Infection	Testing specimen	Test system used	Sensitivity (95% CI^a)	Specificity (95% CI^a)
HIV	Finger stick (whole blood sample)	Alere Determine™ HIV-1/2 Ag/Ab Combo rapid test system [47]	99.9% (99.4–100.0%)	99.8% (99.5–99.9%)
Hepatitis C (HCV)	Dried blood spot	Murex anti-HCV (version 4.0) [48]	100% (94.79-100%)	99.88% (99.77–99.94%)
Syphilis	Dried blood spot	Murex ICE Syphilis [49]	100% (99.1–100%)	100% (99.2–100%)
Gonorrhea	Vaginal specimen	AmpliSense N. gonorrhea/C. trahomatis/M. genitalium/T. vaginalis-MULTIPRIME-FRT PCR [50]	N/A^b	N/A^b
Trichomoniasis	Vaginal specimen	AmpliSense N. gonorrhea/C. trahomatis/M. genitalium/T. vaginalis-MULTIPRIME-FRT PCR [50]	N/A^b	N/A^b
Chlamydia	Vaginal specimen	AmpliSense N. gonorrhea/C. trahomatis/M. genitalium/T. vaginalis-MULTIPRIME-FRT PCR [50]	100% (73.3–100%)	100% (98.1–- 100%)
Mycoplasma genitalium	Vaginal specimen	AmpliSense N. gonorrhea/C. trahomatis/M. genitalium/T. vaginalis-MULTIPRIME-FRT PCR [50]	76.5% (50.1–93.0%)	100% (98.1–100%)

^aCI confidence interval

^bN/A estimates are not available for vaginal specimen samples