Table 5.
Qualitative results for pools of five saliva specimens and individual saliva using the Aptima™ assay.
| Pooled saliva |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | ∑ | ||||
| Individual saliva | Positive | 42 | 7 | 49 | ||
| Negative | 0 | 252 | 252 | |||
| ∑ | 42 | 259 | 301a | |||
a
2 specimens gave invalid result
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