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Conventional cultivation, quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), and multiple cross displacement amplification-lateral flow biosensor (MCDA-LFB) comparisons for N. gonorrhoeae testing in clinical samples.
| Detection assay | Results | Gold standard method (cultivation) | True positive rate (%) | True negative rate (%) | |
| + | − | ||||
| qPCR | + | 45 | 0 | 95.7a | 100 |
| − | 2 | 69 | |||
| MCDA-LFB | + | 47 | 0 | 100 | 100 |
| − | 0 | 69 | |||
aStatistically significant (p < 0.05) when compared with MCDA-LFB.
