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. 2019 Jul 2;19:148. doi: 10.1186/s12866-019-1520-9

Table 3.

Sensitivity and specificity of phenotypic ASTs and genotypic AMR predictions against the broth microdilution reference AST. Clinical breakpoints are applied as interpretive criteria for all ASTs

Antimicrobial Sensitivity (95% CI) Specificity (95% CI)
Disk diffusion Agar dilution Genotyping Disk diffusion Agar dilution Genotyping
Ampicillin 0.95 (0.85–0.99) 0.95 (0.85–0.99) 0.96 (0.88–1) 1 (0.92–1) 1 (0.92–1) 0.93 (0.82–0.99)
Chloramphenicol 0.92 (0.8–0.98) 0.71 (0.57–0.83) 0.94 (0.83–0.99) 0.98 (0.9–1) 0.98 (0.9–1) 0.94 (0.84–0.99)
Gentamicin 0.71 (0.29–0.96) 0.86 (0.42–1) 0 (0–0.41) 1 (0.96–1) 1 (0.96–1) 1 (0.96–1)
Nalidixic Acid 0.82 (0.63–0.94) 0.75 (0.55–0.89) 0.82 (0.63–0.94) 1 (0.95–1) 0.96 (0.89–0.99) 1 (0.95–1)
Sulfamethoxazole 0.97 (0.9–1) 0.97 (0.9–1) 0.67 (0.54–0.78) 1 (0.89–1) 0.94 (0.8–0.99) 0.97 (0.84–1)
Streptomycin 0.96 (0.8–1) 0.38 (0.2–0.59) 0.92 (0.75–0.99) 0.59 (0.47–0.7) 1 (0.95–1) 0.43 (0.32–0.55)
Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole 1 (0.88–1) 0.93 (0.78–0.99) 0.97 (0.83–1) 1 (0.95–1) 0.97 (0.9–1) 0.96 (0.88–0.99)
Overall 0.94 (0.9–0.96) 0.83 (0.78–0.87) 0.84 (0.79–0.88) 0.93 (0.9–0.95) 0.98 (0.97–0.99) 0.88 (0.85–0.91)