Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Table 1 General decision matrix for blood and bone marrow diagnostic test

From: What proportion of Salmonella Typhi cases are detected by blood culture? A systematic literature review

		BMC^a
		+ve	−ve
BC^a	+ve	TP_{BC, BMC}	FP_BC OR FN_BMC
BC^a	−ve	FN_BC OR FP_BMC	TN_{BC, BMC}

BC blood culture, BMC bone marrow culture, TP true positive, FP false positive, FN false negative, TN true negative
^aBiological materials withdrawn from same patient

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