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. 2021 Feb 19;21:90. doi: 10.1186/s12887-021-02523-4

Table 3.

Diagnostic values of different methods with a real-time polymerase chain reaction as the standard

RT-PCR Kappa Sensitivity Specificity Accuracy Youden Index
Positive Negative
MP-IgM (PA)
 Positive 225 107 0.526 74.0% 79.7% 77.6% 53.7%
 Negative 79 419
MP-IgM (GICT)
 Positive 151 71 0.384 49.7% 86.5% 73.0% 36.2%
 Negative 153 455
MP-RNA (SAT)
 Positive 133 13 0.464 43.8% 97.5% 77.8% 41.2%
Negative 171 513
7 RNAs
 Positive 81 57 0.179 26.6% 89.2% 66.3% 15.8%
 Negative 223 469

SAT simultaneous amplification and testing

PA particle agglutination

GICT immune colloidal gold technique