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Table 2 Sensitivity and specificity of BioFire and rapid test versus qPCR

From: Performance of BioFire array or QuickVue influenza A + B test versus a validation qPCR assay for detection of influenza A during a volunteer A/California/2009/H1N1 challenge study

Diagnostic test

Sensitivity

Specificity

TP/(TP + FN)

%

95% CI

TN/(TN + FP)

%

95% CI

BioFire

98/136

72.1

63.7–79.4

201/215

93.5

89.3–96.4

Rapid test

15/176

8.5

4.8–13.7

122/123

99.2

95.6–100

  1. TPR true positive rate, TNR true negative rate, TP true positive, TN true negative, FP false positive, FN false negative, CI confidence interval
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