TABLE 2.
Sensitivity of the ELISA technique using different Leishmania antigens for a specificity of 99% in the diagnosis of symptomatic and asymptomatic infected dogs
| Antigen | Sensitivitya |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Symptomatic | Asymptomatic | Totalb | |
| SPLA | 72/83 (86.8) | 38/57 (66.7) | 110/140 (78.5) |
| SALA | 74/83 (89.2) | 43/57 (75.4) | 117/140 (83.6) |
| LicTXNPx | 54/83 (65.1) | 28/57 (49.1) | 82/140(58.6) |
| LimTXNPx | 43/83 (51.8) | 22/57 (38,6) | 65/140 (46.4) |
| rK39 | 65/83 (78.3) | 19/57 (33.3) | 84/140 (60.0) |
| LAM | 80/83 (96.4) | 42/57 (73.7) | 122/140 (87.1) |
a
True positives/(true positives + false negatives); numbers in parentheses are percentages.
b
Total results for symptomatic- and asymptomatic-dog samples.