Table 5 |
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Sensitivity of direct ZN, concentrated FM and Magnetic bead-FM, as a function of reading time |
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Reading time |
Cumulative No. positive slides |
New positive slides |
Yield of new positives/total positives* (%) |
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Direct ZN |
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|
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30 s |
4 |
4 |
66.7% |
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1 min |
4 |
0 |
0% |
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3 min |
4 |
0 |
0% |
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5 min |
6 |
2 |
33.3% |
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Concentrated FM |
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|
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30 s |
12 |
12 |
63.2% |
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|
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|
1 min |
14 |
2 |
10.5% |
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|
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|
3 min |
19 |
5 |
26.3% |
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5 min |
19 |
0 |
0% |
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Magnetic bead |
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|
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30 s |
6 |
6 |
35.3% |
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|
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1 min |
11 |
5 |
29.4% |
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3 min |
13 |
2 |
10.5% |
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5 min |
17 |
4 |
23.5% |
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*total number of slides positive by each method after 5 minutes examination time. |
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Albert et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2011 11:125 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-11-125 |
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