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Table 2 Summary of patients informations

From: Ability of real-time PCR for differential diagnosis of various forms of cutaneous leishmaniasis: a comparative study with histopathology

Cutaneous leishmaniasis forms

Number of patients

Ridley score

Real-time PCR

P value (Ridley)

P value (qPCR)

0+

1+

2+

3+

4+

Ct (mean ± SD)

Parasite load (mean)

A

CL

CNL

A

CL

CNL

A

10

4

4

2

26.24 ± 4.59

13,064

< 0.001

0.038

< 0.001

< 0.001

CL

16

10

6

31.88 ± 0.24

63

< 0.001

< 0.001

< 0.001

0.549

CNL

14

4

7

3

31.31 ± 0.71

98

0.038

< 0.001

< 0.001

0.549

  1. A acute form, CL chronic lupoid form, CNL chronic non-lupoid form