CRP and tuberculosis: CRP had a sensitivity of 64.94% (95% CI 53.22% to 75.47%) in predicting the presence of tuberculosis, a specificity of 76.71% (95 CI 65.35% to 85.81%), a false-positive rate of 23.29% (95 CI 14.19% to 34.65%), and a false-negative rate of 35.06% (95 CI 24.53% to 46.78%).