Table 4. Evaluation of the draPCR on serum.

	Infection status Number of serum samples (number of patients)
DraPCR	confirmed S. haematobium	confirmed S. mansoni	Suspected	Total
positive	22 (11) $		5 (2) ○	27(13)
negative	1 (1) *	22 (20)	85 (62)	108 (83)
Total	23 (12)	22 (20)	90 (64)	135 (96)

^$ Of the 22 samples, 11 serum samples were obtained at the moment of egg detection, one sample before egg detection, and 10 samples after treatment. Of the 11 patients with a confirmed S. haematobium infection, 7 patients demonstrated eggs in urine (see Table 2 ) and 4 patients had eggs in feces (part of the group described in Table 3 ).

^* only 1 mL of serum was available for PCR analysis and it was obtained 514 days after treatment.

^○ 2 samples were collected before treatment, and 3 samples were taken 21 to 75 days after treatment.