Sentence examples for specificity of the testing from inspiring English sources

Specifically, in view of the fact that the case finding procedure included taking swabs from all household members, and analysing these by a novel influenza A(H1N1) specific PCR it seems reasonable that the specificity of the testing procedure is close to 100%, while the sensitivity depends on the delay between the onset of symptoms of the index case and sampling of his/her household contacts.

Confirmatory tests significantly increased specificity of the testing procedure and proved to be applicable even on poor quality samples.

The published specificity of the testing method suggests that these are "true positives" and merit further examination of clinical correlations.

The true prevalence (that is, prevalence corrected for the imperfect sensitivity and specificity of the testing method) was 77% (95% CI 70 to 83%).

Internal controls on each slide validated the analysis of BM-lymphocytes, with autologous PC providing the positive control and autologous M/PMNs providing negative control populations on the same slide and ensuring specificity of the testing.

Cohort G consisted of 138 samples for confirming specificity of the testing algorithm (66 samples from the Netherlands and Germany from persons with recent human CoV infection [subcohort G1] and 72 samples from the Netherlands obtained for routine testing from persons with suspected Bordetella pertussis infection [G2]).

Specificity of the test was assumed to be 100%, as no non-specific cross reactivity of other oligonucleotides was reported.

I am impressed with the specificity of the tests involved.

The greater the sensitivity and the specificity of the test, the more useful it will be.

Possibly, these discrepancies are related to the lack of specificity of the tests used.

Negative results obtained with RNA from four other fish viruses confirmed the specificity of the test.