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Interestingly, it could be observed that in surgical specimens, the sensitivity of MAdL was even a little bit higher compared with TTF-1.

Compared with MAT on paired serum specimens, the sensitivity of testing acute-phase serum with the dipstick and latex slide agglutination tests was 22% and 13%, respectively, which is similar to our findings.

P. aeruginosa could also be detected in 25 out of 26 clinical specimens, showing the sensitivity of 96.2%, the specificity of 100%, and the positive predictive value of 100%.

Considering smear-negative TB specimens only, the sensitivity of FT MTB was 56.3%.

By specimen type, the sensitivity was 90.9% (95% CI: 75.7%-98.1%) in penile chancres, 100% (95%CI: 79.4%-100%) in anal chancres, 50% (95%CI: 11.8%-88.2%) in oral chances, 35% (95%Cin14.2-61.7) in dry rashes of secondary syphilis, and 100% in moist secondary lesions (snail track oral lesions and perianal condylomata lata) (Table 1).

Using this DNA microarray, A. baumannii could be successfully detected in 11 out of 13 clinical specimens, thus giving the sensitivity of 84.6% with the specificity of 100% and the positive predictive value of 100%.

Moreover, quality and origin of specimens can influence the sensitivity of RT-PCR– and antigen-based tests.

Often they were performed on heterogeneous tumor specimens that limit the sensitivity of the analysis or in immortalized cell lines that may not reveal the full range of Src-dependent changes in gene expression.

In light of this finding, the percentage of correctly identified Mtb-spiked and Mtb-negative specimens (respectively representing the sensitivity and specificity of sputum smear microscopy at each laboratory) are shown.

In a set of experiments we used bone marrow aspirates from unrelated, non-malignant diseases artificially contaminated with a known number of gastric cancer cells taken by fine needle aspiration biopsy from surgical specimens to determine the sensitivity of our immunocytochemical method in the detection of cytokeratin-reactive tumour cells as previously reported in detail (Pelosi et al, 1999b).

If the shape of the specimen is known, the sensitivity vectors can be accurately evaluated point-by-point.