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Most of the existing assays, however, either involve the use of radioactive materials or have limited sensitivities and/or poor specificities.
The poor specificities of QFT-IT, IP-10 and TST obtained in this study were expected, due to the high number of LTBI cases in our setting.
EIA methods have, in fact, been criticized for their sometimes poor specificities [ 80].
BDG, CS and CI demonstrated high sensitivities but poor specificities in this study population.
In conclusion, GeneMarkS provided outstanding sensitivities but poor specificities for most sequence lengths longer than 100 nt.
For the AHI cut-point of ≥5, the Berlin, STOP and STOP-BANG Questionnaires had high sensitivities, moderate PPVs and poor specificities and NPVs for prediction of SDB.
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They however have poor specificity.
Classic criteria for diagnosis have, however, a poor specificity.
D-dimer assays are sensitive but have poor specificity.
In contrast, other investigators found a poor specificity of oliguria [68, 69].
Studies have reported early planar images with good sensitivity yet poor specificity.
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