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Table 3 Agreement (Kappa) between the detection of N. caninum by LAMP and qPCR in blood and faecal samples

From: Development of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification technique and comparison with quantitative real-time PCR for the rapid visual detection of canine neosporosis

qPCR result

LAMP result

Kappa value

P-value

positive

negative

Blood samples (n = 396)

    

Positive

15

0

1.00

< 0.001

Negative

0

381

  

Faecal samples (n = 115)

    

Positive

5

0

0.697

< 0.001

Negative

4

106

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