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Detection of the T. pallidum genome, by HIV status
| PCR assay | HIV statusa |
P | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive |
Negative |
||||||||
| Total (n) | Pos (n [%]) | Se (%) | Sp (%) | Total (n) | Pos (n [%]) | Se (%) | Sp (%) | ||
| mPCR | 83 | 47 (56.6) | 69 | 94 | 271 | 109 (40.2) | 89 | 99 | 0.008d |
| nPCR | 83 | 50 (60.2) | 75 | 100 | 271 | 111 (40.9) | 91 | 100 | 0.002e |
Pos, positive; Se, sensitivity; Sp, specificity.
χ21(1, N = 354) = 9.5.
χ21(1, N = 354) = 6.9.
