Table 2.

Evaluation of confirmatory real-time PCR and ddPCR targeting IS6110 from microbiological culture DNA isolation according to the presence of gross tuberculosis-like lesions (TBL), histopathological TBL or no histopathological lesion (NHL).

		Real-time PCR-IS6110 from microbiological culture		ddPCR-IS6110 from microbiological culture
		(+)	(-)	(+)	(-)
Gross TBL (n=19)*		17	2	19	0
Histopathological TBL (n=57)		34	23	37	20
NHL (n=43)		15	28	11	32

(+), positive; (-), negative.

*All the animals with gross TBL also presented histopathological TBL.