Table 3.
Specificity of the species-specific diagnostic. Each assay was tested for cross reactivity against purified DNA extracts of other trematode species. *Non-avian schistosome genera tested were: Australapatemon sp., Cotylurus sp., Diplostomum sp., Notocotylus sp., Plagiorchis sp., Proterometra sp., and Uvulifer sp.
| Assay | Target |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T. stagnicolae | A. brantae | T. szidati | T. physellae | T. szidati | Non-avian schistosomes* | |
| T. stagnicolae | + | – | – | – | – | – |
| A. brantae | – | + | – | – | – | – |
| T. szidati | – | – | + | – | – | – |
| T. physellae | – | – | – | + | – | – |