Pouched Rats’ Detection of Tuberculosis in Human Sputum: Comparison to Culturing and Polymerase Chain Reaction

Table 2

Sample-wise and patient-wise sensitivity and specificity at rat agreements cutoffs 1–10.

Cutoff	Samplewise		Patientwise
	Sensitivity	Specificity	Sensitivity	Specificity
1	84.50	64.00	85.54	49.06
2	81.40	75.70	81.93	64.61
3	76.00	81.80	75.90	73.99
4	74.40	86.60	73.49	80.70
5	68.20	89.40	66.27	84.18
6	66.70	91.90	65.06	88.47
7	65.10	93.30	63.86	90.88
8	62.80	95.50	62.65	94.64
9	58.90	96.90	60.24	96.51
10	53.50	98.10	54.22	98.12

^𝛼Relative to Multiplex PCR.