TABLE 5.
Commutability of EBV assay pairs by linear regression method—Exact reference material
| Fragmentation and assay | No. of samples for which results agreed/total no. of samples testeda
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EliTech | Qiagen | Altona (7500) | Luminex | DiaSorin | LDT (eBER) | LDT (IR-1) |
Altona (digital) |
LDT EBER (digital) |
|
| Nonfragmented | |||||||||
| Qiagen | 5/5 | ||||||||
| Altona (7500) | 5/5 | 5/5 | |||||||
| Luminex | 5/5 | 5/5 | 4/5 | ||||||
| DiaSorin | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 | |||||
| LDT (EBER) | 4/4 | 4/4 | 3/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 | ||||
| LDT (IR-1) | 5/5 | 5/5 | 0/5 | 4/5 | 1/4 | 4/4 | |||
| Altona (digital) | 5/5 | 5/5 | 5/5 | 4/5 | 4/4 | 3/4 | 0/5 | ||
| LDT (EBER-digital) | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 | |
| LDT (IR-1-digital) | 5/5 | 5/5 | 2/5 | 5/5 | 4/4 | 4/4 | 5/5 | 4/4 | 0/5 |
| Fragmented | |||||||||
| Qiagen | 5/5 | ||||||||
| Altona (7500) | 5/5 | 5/5 | |||||||
| Luminex | 5/5 | 5/5 | 5/5 | ||||||
| DiaSorin | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 | 4/4 | |||||
| LDT (EBER) | 5/5 | 5/5 | 4/5 | 5/5 | 4/4 | ||||
| LDT (IR-1) | 5/5 | 5/5 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 0/4 | 4/5 | |||
| Altona (digital) | 5/5 | 5/5 | 5/5 | 5/5 | 4/4 | 2/5 | 0/5 | ||
| LDT (EBER-digital) | 3/3 | 3/3 | 3/3 | 3/3 | 3/3 | 3/3 | 3/3 | 3/3 | |
| LDT (IR-1-digital) | 5/5 | 5/5 | 2/5 | 4/5 | 2/4 | 4/5 | 5/5 | 0/5 | 3/3 |
a
Results for commutable reference material are in bold and those for noncommutable reference material are shaded; otherwise, the data are for marginally commutable reference material. Numerators represent the number of commutable tests, while the denominators are the number of total tests run.