Trichinella gondii

Nicholas, Bachand, Ravel, A., Leighton, P., Stephen, C., Iqbal, A., Ndao, M., Konecsni, K., Fernando, C. & Jenkins, E., 2018, Foxes (Vulpes vulpes) as sentinels for parasitic zoonoses, Toxoplasma gondii and Trichinella nativa, in the northeastern Canadian Arctic, International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 7 (3), pp. 391-397 : 395

3.7. Agreement between MC-PCR and serology for T. gondii

Using either method of detection (serology or molecular), 23 of 39 foxes (59%) were exposed to and/or infected with T. gondii . Five foxes were positive on serology and negative on tissue DNA, 7 were serologically negative but tissue positive, 11 were positive on both, and 16 were negative on both ( Table 1). There was no statistical difference between serological and molecular results using the McNemar chi square test (p = 0.581), and the Kappa test statistic (k = 0.321) showed only moderate agreement between the two tests ( Dohoo et al., 2010).