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. 2017 Dec 26;40(6):317–328. doi: 10.1016/j.bj.2017.09.001

Table 1.

Evaluation of the Algorithm to report positive and negative plates with a detection threshold of 100 CFU/ml.

Sample type Media N Se Se CI (se) N Sp Sp CI (Sp) N PPV PPV CI (PPV) N NPV NPV CI (NPV) N Prev Prev CI (Prev)
All All 1562 97.1 (96.2, 97.8) 234 93.6 (90.1, 96.5) 1531 99.0 (98.4, 99.5) 265 82.6 (77.9, 87) 1796 87.0 (85.4, 88.6)
All CHROM 582 93.6 (91.7, 95.6) 119 95.0 (90.7, 98.4) 551 98.9 (98, 99.6) 150 75.3 (67.8, 82.2) 701 83.0 (80.2, 85.6)
All COL 703 98.9 (98, 99.6) 24 83.3 (67.9, 96.6) 699 99.4 (98.7, 99.9) 28 71.4 (54.2, 87.5) 727 96.7 (95.3, 97.9)
All MAC 277 99.6 (98.6, 100) 91 94.5 (89.5, 98.9) 281 98.2 (96.6, 99.6) 87 98.9 (96.1, 100) 368 75.3 (70.9, 79.9)
Isolates All 1292 97.1 (96.2, 98) 100 96.0 (91.4, 99.1) 1259 99.7 (99.4, 99.9) 133 72.2 (64.7, 79.6) 1392 92.8 (91.5, 94.1)
Isolates CHROM 476 93.9 (91.5, 96) 89 96.6 (92.3, 100) 450 99.3 (98.4, 100) 115 74.8 (66.4, 82.2) 565 84.2 (81.2, 87.1)
Isolates COL 584 98.8 (97.8, 99.7) 5 80.0 (33.3, 100) 578 99.8 (99.5, 100) 11 36.4 (7.7, 66.7) 589 99.2 (98.3, 99.8)
Isolates MAC 232 99.6 (98.7, 100) 6 100.0 (61, 100) 231 100.0 (98.4, 100) 7 85.7 (50, 100) 238 97.5 (95.4, 99.2)
Urines All 270 96.7 (94.5, 98.5) 134 91.8 (86.6, 96) 272 96.0 (93.2, 98.1) 132 93.2 (88.7, 97) 404 66.8 (62.4, 71.8)
Urines CHROM 106 92.5 (86.9, 97.2) 30 90.0 (77.8, 100) 101 97.0 (93.2, 100) 35 77.1 (63.2, 90.3) 136 77.9 (70.6, 84.6)
Urines COL 119 99.2 (97.3, 100) 19 84.2 (65.2, 100) 121 97.5 (94.3, 100) 17 94.1 (81.2, 100) 138 86.2 (80.4, 91.3)
Urines MAC 45 100.0 (92.1, 100) 85 94.1 (88.1, 98.7) 50 90.0 (80.8, 97.9) 80 100.0 (95.4, 100) 130 34.6 (26.9, 43.1)

Abbreviations: All: all sample types or all media types; CHROM: BD BBL CHROMagar Orientation; COL: BD Columbia Agar with 5% Sheep Blood; MAC: BD MacConkey II Agar; N Se: Number of sample analyzed for sensitivity; Se: Sensitivity; CI (Se): 95% confidence interval for Se; N Sp: Number of sample analyzed for specificity; Sp: Specificity; CI (Sp): 95% confidence interval for Sp; N PPV: Number of sample analyzed for PPV; PPV: positive predictive value; CI (PPV): 95% confidence interval for PPV; N NPV: Number of sample analyzed for NPV; NPV: Negative predictive value; CI (NPV): 95% confidence interval for NPV; N Prev: Number of sample analyzed for Prev (i.e. total number of samples per condition); Prev: Prevalence; CI (Prev): 95% confidence interval for Prev.