Table 1. Comparative results obtained by TR DPP® (DPP) and/or conventional plus real time PCR assays for detection of Leishmania infantum in clinical samples from dogs housed in the public kennel of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State (Brazil) in 2012.

Clinical Group	Dogs n (%)	DPP+ n (%)	PCR+ n (%)
Symptomatic	45 (12.5)a	2 (4.4)a	1 (2.2)
Oligosymptomatic	78 (21.8)b	5 (6.4)a	1 (1.3)
Asymptomatic	235 (65.6)c	8 (3.4)a	7 (3.0)
No Classified	42 (10.5)a	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)
Total	400 (100.0)	15 (3.8)	9 (2.3)*

n: number of dogs; TR DPP®: Rapid Test Dual Path Platform; PCR: Leishmania infantum DNA detection by conventional and/or real time polymerase chain reaction;

^*PCR was run with twelve DPP positive samples.

^{a, b, c}: equal letters mean positivity indexes that are statistically similar; Chi-square test (significant at p < 0.05).