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Table 6 Agreement among the results obtained by the techniques KK and HH and those obtained by qPCR-serum and qPCR-feces, in fecal and serum samples collected from the sampled population in the municipality of Barra Mansa/RJ - 2011

From: Evaluation of real-time PCR assay to detect Schistosoma mansoni infections in a low endemic setting

Test

KK-HH

Total

p McNemar

Kappa

CI (95%)

Negative

Positive

N

%

n

%

n

%

Minimum

Maximum

qPCR-feces

          

Negative

549

(90)

1

(0.2)

550

90.2

<0.001

0.110

0.008

0.212

Positive

56

(9.2)

4

(0.7)

60

9.8

Total

605

(99.2)

5

(0.8)

610

100

qPCR-serum

          

Negative

560

(97.9)

4

(0.7)

564

98.6

0.549

0.145

−0.123

0.412

Positive

7

(1.2)

1

(0.2)

8

1.4

Total

567

(99.1)

5

(0.9)

572

100