“…2 smears which were positive by ZN staining at DMC were found to be negative by LED. Though studies by Solomon et al, (2015), Bonnet et al, (2011) andMinion et al, (2009) suggest that LED fluorescence microscopy is 10% more sensitive to ZN microscopy for detecting new smear positives, the present study did not show a big difference. The specificity of LED and ZN staining was found to be 98.77% and 99.5% respectively.…”