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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sex Transm Dis. 2021 Sep 1;48(9):670–674. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001378

Table 1.

Sensitivity and specificity of individual gene types to diagnose neurosyphilis defined as a reactive cerebrospinal fluid Venereal Disease Research Laboratory test

Test Sensitivity %
(95% CI)
Specificity %
(95% CI)
tp0548 type f 88.9
(74.4 to 100.0)
46.4
(33.4 to 59.5)
tp0705 type 2 50.0
(26.9 to 73.1)
78.6
(67.9 to 89.3)