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Table 3 Summary of results.

From: PathogenMIPer: a tool for the design of molecular inversion probes to detect multiple pathogens

TP

TN

FP

FN

Sn

Sp

24

0

0

0

24/24 (100%)

20/20 (100%)

  1. The sensitivity (Sn) and specificity (Sp) of any system can be defined in terms of four outcomes – true positive (TP), true negatives (TN), false positives (FP), false negatives (FN) [17, 18]. In our assay, the sensitivity is the fraction of actual positives which are predicted as positives, and specificity is the overall fraction of prediction that is correct. When the MIPs designed using PathogenMIPer were used in detection, it gave a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 100%.