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: |
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| Saliva assay |
Serum assay |
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| 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) |