I want to compare the known LOD of a new developed detection method with the real cfu in organs/blood of infected humans/animals. Does anyone have such results?
It depends on the host species, natural vs. experimental infections, tissue or organ, etc..., so ti may vary from undetectable to 10^13 (in bovine placenta).
You got already the answers, regarding host, tissues etc, inclusive if you do experimental infection sometimes CFU can vary from same organs in different animals, beside ruminants, many years ago we inoculate guinea pigs with Brrucella wildtype and CFU differ from spleen and limphonodes among animals.
Brucellae are intracellular bacteria that cause brucellosis, a chronic disease which affect target organs, such as the pregnant uterus and the udder, allantoic fluid contains 1.01 × 1013 CFU/g of tissue /bovine placenta.