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Table 2 Luminex assay performance for the detection and identification of ovine piroplasms in sheep blood field samples compared with RLB hybridisation

From: Assessment of exposure to piroplasms in sheep grazing in communal mountain pastures by using a multiplex DNA bead-based suspension array

Probe

  

RLB

Kappa (κ)

CSe (%) Luminex

  

Luminex

NEG

POS

Total

  

Catch-all TB

 

NEG

60

0

60

  
  

POS

5

112

117

  
 

Total

 

65

112

177

0.938 ± 0.027

4.46

B. ovis

 

NEG

176

0

176

  
  

POS

0

1

1

  
 

Total

 

176

1

177

1.000 ± 0.000

0.00

B. motasi

 

NEG

164

0

164

  
  

POS

6

7

13

  
 

Total

 

170

7

177

0.684 ± 0.120

85.71

T. ovis

 

NEG

117

0

117

  
  

POS

3

57

60

  
 

Total

 

120

57

177

0.962 ± 0.022

5.26

T. luwenshuni/OT1

 

NEG

162

0

162

  
  

POS

7

8

15

  
 

Total

 

169

8

177

0.677 ± 0.113

87.50

Theileria sp. OT3

 

NEG

93

0

93

  
  

POS

10

74

84

0.886 ± 0.035

13.51

 

Total

 

103

74

177