General Views on Autoantibody Tests, Allergy Tests and Immunodeficiency Tests in Dermatology
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Introduction The reliability of a diagnostic test is determined by its specificity and sensitivity. The sensitivity of a diagnostic test is defined as the ratio between the number of true positives and the sum of true positives and false negatives. The specificity of a test is defined as the ratio between true negative results and the sum of the number of true negative results and false positive results.
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