TABLE 5.
Relation between the titers in the Brucellacapt and Coombs anti-Brucella testsa
| Brucellacapt titerb | No. of samples with Coombs' anti-Brucella test titerb of:
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 40 | 80 | 160 | 320 | 640 | 1,280 | 2,560 | 5,120 | Total | |
| 0 | 474 | 1 | 4 | 479 | ||||||
| 20 | 1 | 11 | 1 | |||||||
| 40 | 10 | 3 | ||||||||
| 80 | 23 | 16 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| 160 | 5 | 14 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| 320 | 7 | 15 | 21 | 9 | 2 | |||||
| 640 | 5 | 17 | 19 | 10 | 2 | |||||
| 1,280 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 9 | |||||
| 2,560 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 15 | 1 | |||||
| 5,120 | 3 | 13 | 20 | 1 | ||||||
| 10,240 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| 20,480 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 40,960 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| 81,920 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Total | 503 | 884 | ||||||||
Correlation coefficient for all results was 0.956 (P = 0.000). Correlation coefficient for titers of ≥1/160 (italic numbers) was 0.692 (P = 0.000).
Inverse titer.