Test agreement between GeneXpert and urine lipoarabinomannan test for tuberculosis diagnosis among children in Ethiopia

Table 3 Comparison of diagnostic yield GeneXpert and LAM test for diagnosis of pulmonary TB among TB suspected children from urine specimen in WSUCSH, 2022

Diagnostic methods		GeneXpert Results		Sen	Spe	PPV	NPV	Con	Dis	Kappa Value
LAM		Pos	Neg
Test Results	Pos	26	0	89.7%	100%	100%	99%	99.1%	0.9%	0.941
Test Results	Neg	3	308	89.7%	100%	100%	99%	99.1%	0.9%	0.941

N.B. Pos = positive; neg = negative; Sen = sensitivity; Spe = specificity; PPV = positive predictive value; NPV = negative predictive value, Con = concordance; Dis = disagreement

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