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. 2021 Sep 15;9(2):e00693-21. doi: 10.1128/Spectrum.00693-21

TABLE 3.

Sensitivity and specificity estimates of salivary and serum assays with 95% confidence intervals

Model Protein(s)a Index value or % (95% CI) for:
Saliva assay
Serum assay
Youden’s J index Sensitivity Specificity Youden’s J index Sensitivity Specificity
1. Random Forest Set of 10 SARS-CoV-2 proteins 0.851 87.5 (81.6–93.6) 97.6 (92.2–100) 0.941 94.7 (89.6–98.8) 99.3 (96.1–100)
2. Random Forest EPA_S, EPA_RBD, AB_N, PS_S2i 0.828 86.1 (80.2–91.6) 96.7 (91.9–99.3) 0.935 94.1 (89.5–97.9) 99.4 (96.6–100)
3. Logistic EPA_S, AB_N 0.856b 87.1 (82.1–91.7) 98.5 (95.0–100) 0.959c 95.9 (92.8–98.9) 100 (98.4–100)
4. Logistic EPA_S 0.835 85.7 (80.7–90.4) 97.8 (94.6–100) 0.940 94.7 (90.8–98.7) 99.3 (97.1–100)
5. Logistic EPA_RBD 0.804 87.9 (79.6–93.7) 92.5 (87.2–97.6) 0.916 93.0 (88.5–97.3) 98.6 (95.2–100)
6. Logistic AB_N 0.815 83.7 (78.9–89.2) 97.8 (94.2–99.3) 0.929 94.4 (90.5–97.8) 98.4 (96.3–100)
7. Logistic PS_S2i 0.785 82.5 (76.6–88.0) 96.1 (91.0–99.2) 0.940 95.5 (91.5–98.8) 98.5 (94.9–100)
a

Protein IDs are defined in Results and Table 2.

b

Best value for saliva.

c

Best value for serum.