TABLE 1.
Agreement between MTTT and CTTT strategies overall and by symptom stage
Stage (n) | MTTT result | CTTT result |
% Agreement (95% CI) | Kappa (95% CI) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Positive | Negative | ||||
Overall (1,066) | Positive | 144 | 21 | 96.9 (95.7–97.8) | 0.88 (0.84–0.92) |
Negative | 12 | 889 | |||
Erythema migrans lesion (21) | Positive | 3 | 1 | 95.2 (77.3–99.2) | 0.83 (0.51–1.00) |
Negative | 0 | 17 | |||
Symptoms of early disseminated Lyme disease (371) | Positive | 45 | 10 | 95.7 (93.1–97.3) | 0.82 (0.74–0.90) |
Negative | 6 | 310 | |||
Symptoms of late Lyme disease (674) | Positive | 96 | 10 | 97.6 (96.2–98.5) | 0.91 (0.87–0.95) |
Negative | 6 | 562 |