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Thus collection and examination of blood smears from asymptomatic patients is not possible.
I will be gossiping about these maneuverings and the current ridiculous smears against Gary Bauer all day, but I suppose here we should rise to a higher sphere and talk literature.
Nested RACE-PCR (rapid amplification of cDNA ends with PCR) on Marathon kidney cDNA (Clontech) with four different primer combinations (three within known exons and one within a GeneFinder-predicted exon 5' of exon 1) and appropriate nested adaptor primers produced smears and multiple bands over several attempts.
The performance of rapid test vs thick smears are shown in Table 3. A good agreement was found indicating high sensitivity of 91% which is significantly higher than that of spleen (P < 0.0001).
The thick smears were re-examined to discard a false negative results, combined infections or misdiagnosis of species by an experienced technician who was blinded to the previous results of thick smears.