Abstract
Ceylon Medical Journal (CMJ) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal published quarterly by the Sri Lanka Medical Association in the last week of March, June, September and December each year. The mission of the CMJ is to promote the science and art of medicine and betterment of public health. The Journal publishes original papers and commentaries which have relevance to medicine and allied sciences. The CMJ is committed to maintaining and conforming to the editorial and ethical standards recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
Highlights
We appreciate the interest shown by Joob and Wiwanitkit (Ceylon Medical Journal 2013; 58: 180) regarding our article on “Use of culture and immunechromatographic technique for diagnosis of trichomoniasis in Sri Lanka” (Ceylon Medical Journal 2013; 58: 122-3)
We found that the immune-chromatographic test (ICT; OSOM® Trichomonas rapid test) had a sensitivity of 100%, specificity of 96%, positive predictive value of 60% and negative predictive value of 100%; the corresponding values from the report they quote by Hegazy et al were 97.98%, 99.37%, 98.98%, and 98.75% respectively [1]
Except for the positive predictive value the results seem quite comparable. This is in spite of the studies having different sample sizes (601 in ours vs. 258) and using two different reference standards
Summary
We appreciate the interest shown by Joob and Wiwanitkit (Ceylon Medical Journal 2013; 58: 180) regarding our article on “Use of culture and immunechromatographic technique for diagnosis of trichomoniasis in Sri Lanka” (Ceylon Medical Journal 2013; 58: 122-3). They state that “some previous reports had different results” to ours.
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