Concurrent molecular characterization of sand flies and Leishmania parasites by amplicon-based next-generation sequencing

Table 3 Serial concentrations of Leishmania DNA with their concomitant number of reads for sand flies and Leishmania parasites

Leishmania DNA concentration (ng)	Sand fly number of reads^a	Leishmania number of reads
1	106,957	19,617
0.2	110,496	17,037
0.04	129,792	5770
0.008	175,327	3262
0.0016	192,389	493
0.00032	206,048	0
0	199,748	0

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