Clinical sensitivity in the microbiology laboratory refers to:
a. positive results from patients known to have an infection or disease.
b. percentage of positive results from all pa-tients tested.
c. percentage of patient's that test negative known to have an infection or disease.
d. none of the above answers are correct.
A
Clinical sensitivity is the percentage of patients that are identified as positive that are known to have an infection or disease.
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