Table 4.
False-positive test results for control samples with or without parasitic infections
| Infection | No. of false-positive results/no. of samples tested |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IFAT | ELISA/CA | ELISA/AWA | ELISA/SEA | IHA | ELISA/NovaTec | ELISA/DRG | ELISA/Viramed | Total | |
| Nematodes | 0/35 | 1/35 | 0/35 | 0/35 | 0/35 | 0/35 | 4/35 | 6/35 | 11/280 |
| Cestodes | 0/16 | 0/16 | 0/16 | 0/16 | 1/16 | 0/16 | 4/16 | 13/16 | 18/128 |
| Trematodes | 0/2 | 0/2 | 0/2 | 0/2 | 0/2 | 0/2 | 0/2 | 2/2 | 2/16 |
| Intestinal protozoa | 0/14 | 2/14 | 0/14 | 1/14 | 0/14 | 0/14 | 1/14 | 1/14 | 5/112 |
| Leishmania | 1/6 | 1/6 | 0/6 | 1/6 | 0/6 | 0/6 | 1/6 | 1/6 | 5/48 |
| Malaria | 1/11 | 1/11 | 0/11 | 1/11 | 0/11 | 1/11 | 1/11 | 1/11 | 6/88 |
| No infection | 0/20 | 0/20 | 0/20 | 0/20 | 0/20 | 0/20 | 1/20 | 0/20 | 1/160 |
| Total | 2/104 | 5/104 | 0/104 | 3/104 | 1/104 | 1/104 | 12/104 | 24/104 | 48/832 |