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NAAT for Trich

How reliable is the new urine NAAT for detecting trich in men?
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Thanks.
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1415174 tn?1453243103
I think you are negative then.
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Thanks.  I had it run by LabCorp and ran it twice.  2 weeks apart, both negative,
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1415174 tn?1453243103
If you are talking about Gen-Probe's test which I think is the only one out there, It is very sensitive and specific. So the test itself is reliable. However, in any lab test there is user error and some false positives and negatives. Generally, you can rely on the results to about 98% or so.
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