Research Article

Comparative Evaluation and Measure of Accuracy of ELISAs, CLIAs, and ECLIAs for the Detection of HIV Infection among Blood Donors in China

Table 2

The NPV and PPV of initial ELISA results for HIV blood screening.

HIV screeningSingle ELISA kit (284)Two different ELISA kits (745)ELISA (1029)ECLIACLIA
StatusNonreactiveReactiveDual nonreactiveSingle reactiveDual reactiveNonreactiveReactiveSumNonreactiveReactiveNonreactiveReactive

1831013952001505784511029884145885144
True negatives183713951984657831589388498858
True positives03002104013613601360136
NPV§100% (183/183)100% (395/395)100% (578/578)100% (578/578)100% (884/884)100% (885/885)
PPV§29.7% (30/101)1.0% (2/200)69.3% (104/150)30.2% (136/451)30.2% (136/451)93.8% (136/145)94.4% (136/144)

§: positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) are the proportions of positive and negative results in statistics and diagnostic tests that are true positive and true negative results, respectively.