Evaluation of the AMPLICOR CMV test for direct detection of cytomegalovirus in plasma specimens
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M Hiyoshi1, S Tagawa, T Takubo
1Department of Laboratory Medicine, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan. mh1@msic.med.osaka-cu.ac.jp
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|October 8, 1997
Abstract:
We evaluated the AMPLICOR CMV test (PCR) for the direct detection of cytomegalovirus in plasma. Sixty-eight specimens were involved for the comparison between the AMPLICOR test and the antigenemia assay. The sensitivities, specificities, and positive and negative predictive values were 97.1, 100, 100, and 97.1%, respectively, for the AMPLICOR test and 79.4, 100, 100, and 82.9%, respectively, for the antigenemia assay.