Prevalence and Risk Factors of Superficial Fungal Infection among Patients Attending a Tertiary Care Hospital in Central Nepal

Table 4

Evaluation of KOH preparation with culture for the detection of fungal infection.

Test	Culture
KOH		Positive	Negative	Total
	Positive	20 (TP)	6 (FP)	26
	Negative	13 (FN)	76 (TN)	89
		Total = 33	Total = 82	Total = 115
Sensitivity	71.7%, 95% CI (56.5% to 84.0%)
Specificity	93.1%, 95% CI (85.7% to 97.4%)
PPV	84.6%, 95% CI (71.3% to 92.4%)
NPV	86.3%, 95% CI (79.8% to 90.9%)
Accuracy	85.8%, 95% CI (78.7% to 91.2%)
Kappa value	0.5, 95% CI (0.7 to 0.4)
P Value	<0.001

Abbreviations. TP = true positive; FP = false positive; TN = true negative; FN = false negative.