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Volume 10, Number 2—February 2004
THEME ISSUE
2004 SARS Edition
Laboratory Study

Serologic and Molecular Biologic Methods for SARS-associated Coronavirus Infection, Taiwan

Ho-Sheng Wu*, Shu-Chun Chiu*, Tsan-Chang Tseng*, Szu-Fong Lin*, Jih-Hui Lin*, Yu-Fen Hsu*, Mei-Ching Wang*, Tsuey-Li Lin*, Wen-Zieh Yang*, Tian-Lin Ferng*, Kai-Hung Huang*, Li-Ching Hsu*, Li-Li Lee*, Jyh-Yuan Yang*, Hour-Young Chen*, Shun-Pi Su*, Shih-Yan Yang*, Ting-Hsiang Lin*, and Ih-Jen Su*Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Center for Disease Control, Department of Health, Taiwan, Republic of China

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Table 4

Specificity, sensitivity, positive and negative predictive values of the RT-PCR for the diagnosis of SARS, in comparison to the neutralization test with convalescent-phase serum specimensa

Neutralization test Performances of methods evaluated
Method
Results
No.
Positive
Negative
Sensitivity
PPVb
Specificity
NPVc
RT-PCR Positive
145
108
37
52.2%
74.5%


Negative 236 99 137 78.7% 58.1%

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