First international external quality assessment scheme of nucleic acid amplification tests for the detection of Schistosoma and soil-transmitted helminths, including Strongyloides: A pilot study
Table 5
The performance of 15 laboratories for the detection of six helminths in stool and DNA.
The numbers in the second row represent the total number of true negatives (TN), true positives (TP) and educational samples (Ed) per target. The laboratories are shown in the left column. The body of the table shows the number of false-positive (FP), false-negative (FN) and educational (Ed) test results per laboratory and per target. Blue cells indicate FP results, red cells indicate FN results, green cells indicate the absence of FP and FN results, black cells indicate that a NAAT has not been performed by a laboratory. The numbers in the blue, red and white cells indicate the number of FP, FN or Ed results, respectively. The ‘All targets’ column, represents per laboratory across all targets the ratio of the totals of FP, FN and educational positives (EP) over the total number of TN, TP and Ed.