Table 3.
Comparison of the test result (cutoff ≥0.0005 pg) of intestine and mesenteric lymph node (MLN) quantitative PCR (qPCR) corresponding to various grades of lesion scores on histopathological examination.
| Tissues | Histological lesion scoresa | qPCR result |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| + | − | Total | ||
| Intestine | 0 | 18 | 35 | 53 |
| 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
| 3 | 40 | 0 | 40 | |
| 3a | 9 | 0 | 9 | |
| 3b | 27 | 0 | 27 | |
| 3c | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
| Not done | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Total | 64 | 45 | 107 | |
| MLN | 0 | 19 | 27 | 46 |
| 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | |
| 2 | 26 | 3 | 29 | |
| 3 | 14 | 1 | 15 | |
| Not done | 6 | 0 | 6 | |
| Total | 70 | 37 | 107 | |
aPérez’s score of grading histopathological lesion.