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. 2020 Oct 6;8(19):4360–4369. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v8.i19.4360

Table 2.

Performance of the immunoglobulin M/immunoglobulin G antibody test kit for the diagnosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection with the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction result as a reference

Results of IgM/IgG test (n)
IgM/IgG antibody test performance (%)
TP TN FP FN Specificity (95%CI) Sensitivity (95%CI) PPV (95%CI) NPV (95%CI) Accuracy (95%CI)
IgM 109 205 1 128 99.5 (98.6-100.0) 46.0 (39.6-52.4) 99.1 (97.3-100.0) 61.6 (56.3-66.8) 70.9 (66.6-75.1)
IgG 227 204 2 10 99.0 (97.7-100.0) 95.8 (93.2-98.4) 99.1 (97.9-100.0) 95.3 (92.5-98.2) 97.3 (95.8-98.8)
M/G 227 203 3 10 98.5 (96.9-100.0) 95.8 (93.2-98.4) 98.7 (97.2-100.0) 95.3 (92.4-98.2) 97.1 (95.5-98.6)

SARS-CoV-2: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; COVID-19: Coronavirus disease 2019; RT-PCR: Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction; IgM: Immunoglobulin M; IgG: Immunoglobulin G; M/G: IgM and/or IgG; TP: True positive; TN: True negative; FP: False positive; FN: False negative; PPV: Positive predictive value; NPV: Negative predictive value.