TABLE 3.
Isotype sensitivity and specificity of the ELISA technique using different Leishmania antigens in the diagnosis of symptomatic and asymptomatic infected dogs
| Antigen | Sensitivitya |
Specificityc | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Symptomatic | Asymptomatic | Totalb | ||
| SPLA | ||||
| IgG1 | 59/83 (71.1) | 45/57 (78.9) | 104/140 (74.2) | 86/109 (78.9) |
| IgG2 | 69/83 (83.1) | 40/57 (71.2) | 109/140 (77.9) | 103/109 (94.4) |
| IgG | 74/83 (89.2) | 42/57 (73.7) | 116/140 (82.9) | 100/109 (91.7) |
| LicTXNPx | ||||
| IgG1 | 56/83 (67.5) | 53/57 (93,0) | 109/140 (77,9) | 83/109 (76.1) |
| IgG2 | 58/83 (69.9) | 35/57 (61.4) | 93/140 (66.4) | 102/109 (93.6) |
| IgG | 67/83 (80.7) | 44/57 (77.2) | 110/140 (78.6) | 97/109 (89.0) |
| rK39 | ||||
| IgG1 | 62/83 (74.7) | 35/57 (61.4) | 97/140 (69.3) | 102/109 (93.6) |
| IgG2 | 73/83 (88.0) | 45/57 (78.9) | 118/140 (84.3) | 96/109 (88,1) |
| IgG | 73/83 (88.0) | 32/57 (56.1) | 105/140 (75.0) | 101/109 (92.7) |
| LAM | ||||
| IgG1 | 77/83 (92.8) | 50/57 (87.8) | 127/140 (90.7) | 99/109 (90.1) |
| IgG2 | 83/83 (100) | 53/57 (93.0) | 136/140 (97.1) | 105/109 (96.3) |
| IgG | 80/83 (96.4) | 47/57 (82.4) | 127/140 (90.7) | 104/109 (95.4) |
a
True positives/(true positives + false negatives); numbers in parentheses are percentages.
b
Symptomatic- and asymptomatic-dog samples.
c
True negatives/(true negatives + false positives); numbers in parentheses are percentages.