Specificity (patient level; fungal pneumonia; reference: final clinical diagnosis) of Conventional microbiological tests (Huang et al. 2026), as run in Huang et al. 2026 on 122 ICU patients with severe pneumonia-associated sepsis and paired blood and BALF (Huang et al. 2026)
98.8% Specificity (patient level; fungal pneumonia; reference: final clinical diagnosis)
Methods
- Tested configuration
- Conventional microbiological tests (Huang et al. 2026), as run in Huang et al. 2026
- Protocol
- Patient-level detection of causative pathogens in blood against the final clinical diagnosis (Huang et al. 2026 Table 2)
- Dataset
- 122 ICU patients with severe pneumonia-associated sepsis and paired blood and BALF (Huang et al. 2026)
- Procedure
- Patient-level detection of causative pathogens in blood against the final clinical diagnosis (Huang et al. 2026 Table 2)
- Evaluation
- CMTs against the final clinical diagnosis (Huang et al. 2026)
- Coverage
- Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
- Uncertainty
- 95% CI 93.33 to 99.78
- Evidence
- Author-reported evaluation · source checkedBlood-based targeted sequencing of microbial cell-free DNA in severe pneumonia-associated sepsis · Table 2, stratum 'Fungal pneumonia', row 'CMTs', column 'Specificity (95%CI)'
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Reproduction
- Split
- Single cohort
- Adaptation
- Smear, culture, serology and PCR (Daan Gene; Cepheid) as ordered clinically
- Scoring implementation
- Patient-level sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV and accuracy against the final clinical diagnosis
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| Property and statement | Original source and location | Review and provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Reported result 98.77% Individual claims | Blood-based targeted sequencing of microbial cell-free DNA in severe pneumonia-associated sepsis Table 2, stratum 'Fungal pneumonia', row 'CMTs', column 'Specificity (95%CI)' Version: Respiratory Research 27:357, published 2026-06-24; PMC13584460 full-text XML | source checked ["source-hash-verification","deterministic-table-parse","independent-cell-check"] · 2026-10-11 author reported Audit detailsRe-downloaded the pinned artifact and matched its SHA-256; compared every value with a separate stdlib parser written for this review (the extractor's script was not run) and checked a stratified sample by hand against the rendered table. Field: Source artifact SHA-256: Hash scope: Hash scope not separately documented; inspect source record Extraction artifact SHA-256: |
Sources and history
Release 2026-10-22-1b7cf027e4f6 · Record review: source checked
1 source record and release history
- Blood-based targeted sequencing of microbial cell-free DNA in severe pneumonia-associated sepsis · Original source · Respiratory Research 27:357, published 2026-06-24; PMC13584460 full-text XML
Technical metadata and extraction receipts
Stable ID: dna-pathogen-20261011-huang2026-result-fungal-cmt-specificity
- metric
- specificity
- metric direction
- higher
- unit
- percent
- printed value
- 98.77%
- numeric value
- 98.77
- metric qualifier
- patient level; fungal pneumonia; reference: final clinical diagnosis
- uncertainty
- type: confidence_interval; lower: 93.33; upper: 99.78; level: 0.95; printed: (93.33% − 99.78%)
- source locator
- Table 2, stratum 'Fungal pneumonia', row 'CMTs', column 'Specificity (95%CI)'
- review
- method: source-hash-verification; deterministic-table-parse; independent-cell-check; reviewer: claude; reviewer note: Separate Claude review agent (reviewer-path), independent of the extractor; no human review claimed; date: 2026-10-11; artifact sha256: 79b237d733d9ad3af33722c30013afb0539adf03098ca1e1c2f18344bcc4a67d; retrieval url: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/PMC13584460/fullTextXML; method note: Extracted by deterministic parse of the pinned Europe PMC full-text XML (extract/extract_huang2026.py), with stratum, row and column labels asserted. printed_value is the value before the interval exactly as printed.; note: Re-downloaded the pinned artifact and matched its SHA-256; compared every value with a separate stdlib parser written for this review (the extractor's script was not run) and checked a stratified sample by hand against the rendered table.