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Results: For a specificity of 0.96, sensitivity was 0.70.
For a specificity of 99%, the sensitivity of PAPP-A, hCG and progesterone were 64.5, 93.3 and 76%, respectively.
Two of these antigens, antigen 6 and MAP1637c, yielded in our conditions a sensitivity of 72% and 82%, respectively, for a specificity of 98%.
It is particularly noticeable that, when probed with the same serum panel, the most widely used European paratuberculosis commercial seroassay (Pourquier test) yielded a sensitivity of 72% for a specificity of only 92%.
The sensitivity has a value near 0.5 for a specificity of 1.
The same bias can be expected for a specificity of 0.960 and sensitivity 0.995.
Similar(29)
At a cut-off value of 0.605 for sensitivity and a specificity of 92 % were determined.
Four of them were proposed as biomarkers for PD with a specificity of more than 80%%.
At a level > 200 ng/ml, CD5L had a specificity for cirrhosis of 96% and a specificity for cancer of 60%.
CT has a sensitivity of 81% for determining resectability and a specificity of 82% [15].
Interestingly, α-synuclein showed a specificity for GC* nucleotide sequence in its binding ability to DNA.
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