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Table 3 Frequency of concordant and discordant Anopheles blood-meal results analyzed by quantitative versus conventional PCR

From: Probe-based multiplex qPCR identifies blood-meal hosts in Anopheles mosquitoes from Papua New Guinea

Conventional PCR

Quantitative PCR

Human

Pig

Dog

Human/pig

Human/dog

Pig/dog

Negative

Human

66 (62)

0 (0)

2 (8)

2 (33)

9 (60)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Pig

1 (1)

7 (64)

0 (0)

1 (17)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Dog

0 (0)

0 (0)

12 (50)

0 (0)

1 (7)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Human/pig

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Human/dog

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

3 (20)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Pig/dog

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Negative

39 (37)

4 (36)

10 (42)

3 (50)

2 (13)

2 (100)

24 (100)

  1. Notes: Numbers outside of parenthesis are frequency of concordant (along diagonal) or discordant (off-diagonals) blood-meal types and inside parenthesis are percentage of column-wise total