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Limit of Bartonella sp. detection in each method
| GE/μla in initial blood sample | Liquid culture |
Blood, nested PCR | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conventional PCR | Nested PCR | ||
| Below 4 | Negative | Negative | Negative |
| From 4 to 9 | Negative | Negative | Positive |
| From 10 to 24 | Negative | Positive | Positive |
| Over 25 | Positive | Positive | Positive |
GE, genome equivalent; 1 GE/μl = 1,000 copies/ml.
