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. 2016 Oct;162:20–26. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2016.06.009

Table 2.

Parasite concentrations (per ml) in finger prick blood of volunteers from northern Ethiopia estimated by qRT-kDNA PCR. Results are compared with the corresponding results obtained by the different LAMP assays. Positive LAMP results are designated by the take-off time in mins (see materials and methods).

Sample number History of VL Parasite/ml
qRT-kDNA-PCR
Estimated take-off time of LAMP amplification (min)
LITS- LAMP1 LITS- LAMP2 L151 LAMP
1 + 0 61
2 0
3 0
4 0
5 0
6 + 0 67
7 0
8 0
9 0
10 0
11 + 18 69 57
12 0
13 0
14 0
15 0
16 + 0
17 0
18 0
19 0
20 3
21 + 11 78 63
22 595 59 54 52
23 0 86
24 59 85 65
25 0
26 + 0
27 0 72 86
28 0 62 65
29 0 48
30 0 48 103
31 + 0 41 34
32 0 57
33 0 47
34 9
35 0
36 + 2 75 41 34
37 0 59
38 1 43
39 0
40 + 0 56 44 58
41 0 60 54
42 23 42 52
43 0 60 53
44 0 45