From: Evaluation of four molecular methods to detect Leishmania infection in dogs
PCR protocol | No. of positive samples (%) | ||
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CS dogs (n = 150) |
AH dogs (n = 79) |
All dogs (n = 229) | |
Nested SSU rRNA-PCR | 66 (44.0)a | 20 (25.3)a | 86 (37.6)d,e,f |
ITS1-PCR | 18 (12.0)b | 2 (1.3)b | 20 (8.7)d |
MC-PCR | 28 (18.7)c | 5 (6.3)c | 33 (14.4)e |
Uni21/Lmj4-PCR | 23 (15.3) | 10 (12.7) | 33 (14.4)f |