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Summary
A commercial human pregnancy test was used to diagnose pregnancy in the monkey. Between Days 20 and 33 of pregnancy 17 of 20 tests (85%) were positive. In nonpregnant monkeys 42 of 48 tests were negative giving a false positive rate of 12.5%. From limited data it appears that this test is unable to detect MCG prior to Day 20 of pregnancy and this limits its usefulness.
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