Volume 2, Number 2—April 1996
Dispatch
Improved Serodiagnostic Testing for Lyme Disease: Results of a Multicenter Serologic Evaluation
Table 1
Accuracy (%) | Precision(%) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Investigator | Sensitivity | Specificity | Case patients | Non-case- patients | WCS suspectsª |
CDC (WCS) | 93 | 71 | 93 | 77 | 69 |
CDC (FLA) | 92 | 82 | 92 | 79 | 62 |
1 | 73 | 99.5 | 89 | 99 | 98 |
2 | 76 | 99 | 82 | 99 | 97 |
3 | 79 | 98 | 91 | 97 | 94 |
4 | 49 | 91 | 79 | 94 | 93 |
5 | 40 | 72 | 63 | 74 | 77 |
ª Specimens from patients with suspected cases that had borderline (equivocal) seroreactivity in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with whole-cell sonicate antigen (WCS).
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