Assessment of the diagnostic performance of serological tests in areas where Leishmania infantum and Leishmania tarentolae occur in sympatry

Table 1 Cohen's κ agreement coefficient and relative 95% confidence intervals for assessing agreement between tests

Serological test	IFAT	NovaTech ELISA	in-house ELISA
NovaTec ELISA	0.29 (0.15–0.44)
in-house ELISA	0.34 (0.19–0.48)	0.61 (0.46–0.76)
ICT	0.21 (0.11–0.32)	0.54 (0.39–0.69)	0.58 (0.43–0.73)

Values in table are presented as Cohen's κ agreement coefficient with the 95% confidence interval in parentheses. κ = 0.21–0.40, fair agreement; κ = 0.41–0.60, moderate agreement; κ = 0.61–0.8, substantial agreement
ELISA Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, ICT immunochromatographic test, IFAT immunofluorescence antibody test

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