Table 2. Detection of Leishmania DNA among animals and trapped sandflies in the study areas of a vocational institute, an urban area and a mountainous rural area in Wiang Jaen District, Chiangrai Province, northern Thailand.
Direct Agglutination Test (DAT) was used to detect antibodies in animal plasma.
| Sample | Total | Vocational school | Wiang Kaen District | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No sample | PCR positive | DAT positive | No sample | PCR positive | DAT Positive | ||
| Sandflies | 76 | ||||||
| Sergentomyia gemmea | 64 | 7* | N/A | 0 | 0 | N/A | |
| Phlebotomus stantoni | 8 | 1** | N/A | 4 | 0 | N/A | |
| Buffaloes (Bulalus bubalis) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2# | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dogs (Canis faniliaris) | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2## | 4 | 0 | 3 (>1:100) |
| Cats (Felis catus) | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 (>1:100) | |
| Black rat (Rattus rattus) | 1 | 1 | 1*** | 1### | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| House lizard (Hemidactylus platyurus) | 2 | 1 | 0 | N/A | 1 | 0 | N/A |
| Toad (Bufo asper) | 1 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 1 | 0 | N/A |
| Poultry | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 9$ |
*L. orientalis = 6 samples, L. donovani/L. infantum = 1 sample,
**L. orientalis = 1 sample
***L. martiniquensis = 1 sample
N/A = not applicable
DAT
# >1:3200 = 2 cases,
##>1:1600 = 1 case, >1:3200 = 1 case, and
###>1:100 = 1 case
$1:100 = 1 case, 1:200 = 3 cases, 1:400 = 1 case and ≥1:800 = 4 cases