Good agreement of conventional and gel-based direct agglutination test in immune-mediated haemolytic anaemia

Table 1 Results of Gel test versus the DAT as performed in the UVDL and BCIDL.

Gel test	UVDL canine DAT			BCIDL canine DAT			BCIDL feline DAT			BCIDL Canine DAT Ht < 0.35 l/l
	-	+	Total	-	+	Total	-	+	Total	-	+	Total
Negative	52	26	78	73	0	73	46	11	57	36	0	36
Positive	7	41	48	8	40	48	2	15	17	1	11	12
Total	59	67	126	81	40	121	48	26	74	37	11	48
Kappa	0.48*			0.86*			0.58*			0.94*

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