Diagnostic value of two commercial chromatographic "patient-side" tests in the diagnosis of acute canine leptospirosis.

C I GloorA SchweighauserThierry FranceyS Rodriguez-CamposB VidondoB BiglerS Schuller

Published in: The Journal of small animal practice (2017)

The diagnostic performance of the rapid diagnostic tests is similar to that reported for the microscopic agglutination test. Both can support a diagnosis of leptospirosis with high specificity but leptospirosis cannot be excluded based on a negative admission test result. Both RDTs are useful in conjunction with other confirmatory tests.

Keyphrases

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