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The overall concordance of qPCR results between the assays was 93% (kappa, 0.85). Compared with the reference assay-based diagnoses, the LeaDEA assay-based diagnoses showed 92.0% positive % agreement and 96.3% negative % agreement (kappa, 0.88). Among the PCR-positive non-HIV patients, the copy numbers measured by the LeaDEA assay distinguished PcP from colonization based on qPCR-independent diagnoses, with 63.8% sensitivity and 72.5% specificity, at an optimal cutoff of 20\u2009427 copies\/ml. 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