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Table 1 Test results for each marker and the results of ROC analysis

From: Simultaneous evaluation of diagnostic marker utility for enzootic bovine leukosis

Marker*1

Unit

EBL cattle*2

Non-EBL cattle*3, *4

Thresholds*5

AUC (95%CI)*6

Se (%)*7

Sp (%)*8

Mean

Median (95 percentile)

Mean

Median (95 percentile)

TK

Du/L

2805.6

2321 (97.2–10,031.0)

23.73

12.5 (−70.475–162.8)

99.7

0.98 (0.96–1.00)

97.1

97.0

LDH2

IU/L

1084.1

936.9 (169.5–2602.3)

397.8

288 (146.2–1244.4)

460.6

0.87 (0.83–0.91)

82.8

81.7

Total LDH

IU/L

3743

3038 (812.3–10,010.1)

1695.1

1002 (544.0–7428.8)

1389

0.85 (0.81–0.89)

87.5

75.8

LDH3

IU/L

693.9

634.4 (86.0–1735.7)

267.2

168.2 (75.2–1048.8)

283.7

0.85 (0.80–0.89)

82.2

79.7

TNFR II/I

–

0.93

0.68 (0.06–4.15)

0.26

0.17 (0.09–0.80)

0.3

0.85 (0.79–0.90)

81.7

81.8

LDH1

IU/L

1100.3

920.7 (335.6–2708.6)

602.7

438.5 (270.2–1843.5)

564.5

0.83 (0.79–0.87)

82.2

75.1

LDH4

IU/L

485.5

168.6 (24.9–1330.9)

143.6

63.9 (20.5–829.0)

91.6

0.77 (0.72–0.82)

79.3

74.6

No. of lymphocytes

102/ul

316.8

108 (16.7–2112.0)

46.4

34 (13.0–138.3)

75.5

0.76 (0.70–0.81)

61.3

73.2

PVL

copies/10 ng DNA

3289.8

1969.3 (28.3–16,224.0)

1536.6

779.9 (0.0–5729.7)

3433.1

0.69 (0.63–0.75)

51.9

72.4

LDH5

IU/L

289.94

66.45 (9.7–1881.9)

285.76

41.5 (10.5–2574.0)

54.5

0.6 (0.54–0.66)

60.9

62.9

  1. *1 TK: thymidine kinase; LDH: lactate dehydrogenase; TNFR: tumor necrosis factor receptor; PVL: proviral load. *2 EBL cattle: cattle affected with BLV-induced lymphoma; 95 percentile: lower and upper limit of 95 percemtile *3 Non-EBL cattle: cattle without BLV-induced lymphoma (including non-infected cattle) *4 Data from non-infected cattle were not included for statistical analysis of PVL *5 Thresholds were calculated by using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis *6 AUC: Area under the curve at the threshold *7 Se: sensitivity for the detection of EBL cattle at the threshold *8 Sp: specificity for the detection of EBL cattle at the threshold