Q Fever: Current State of Knowledge and Perspectives of Research of a Neglected Zoonosis

Table 1

Relative epidemiological sensitivity and specificity (%) for different diagnostic methods.

Method evaluated	Method of reference	Species	Se	Sp	Reference
Agglutination	MI^1	Cattle	94.3	95.5	[251]
ELISA	CF^2	Human	99	88	[252]
ELISA	IFI^3	Human	—	100	[253]
ELISA	Clinical signs	Human	94.8	—	[254]
IFI	Clinical signs	Human	90.6	—	[254]
CF	Clinical signs	Human	77.8	—	[254]
CF	IFI^3	Human	—	90	[252]

¹MI: microimmunofluorescence; ²CF: complement fixation; ³IFI: indirecte immunofluorescence.