Making a Microbiological Diagnosis

Question 1

What is sensitivity?

Answer 1

+ The ability of a tst to detect all of the true positives

+ Equal to the no. of positives obtained fdivided by total no. of positives

Question 2

What is specificity?

Answer 2

+ Ability to identify the number of true negatives

+ Equal to the number of negatives obtained divided by the number of true negatives