Sentence examples for a low specificity from inspiring English sources

Lallemant and colleagues, using a quantitative PCR approach in saliva, validated MMP1 as a specific marker at 100% but a low specificity of 20% [111].

However, PSA has a low specificity with a high false positivity in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) [103].

The above method has a very good sensitivity, catching most of the falls, but a low specificity.

In this context, we found a high sensitivity, but a low specificity of 11C choline PET/TAC at software assisted target biopsy.

On a dataset of 66 images containing 59 MC clusters and 683 MCs, they obtained a sensitivity of 100 % with a low specificity of 87.77 %.

MRI has often a low specificity for differentiating between possible pathological changes which could help in discriminating between the different pathological stages or grades.

Although the FAO/WHO evaluation scheme has the highest sensitivity of 97.8%, it also has a low specificity (27.9%).

Another explanation of these discordances could be a low specificity of the universal primers for some bacteria, especially for I. limosus and M. avium.

These markers showed, however, a low specificity for FTC.

Both clinic based microscopy settings had a low specificity.

However, this test has a low specificity with Enterobacter spp. often overexpressing their chromosomal cephalosporinase [ 79].