Exploration of tongue dorsum sampling to support clinical diagnosis of leprosy patients in the Comoros: A cross-sectional study
Fig 3
Median quantity of bacilli in the skin biopsies of patients belonging to different groups.
Boxplots depict the median and interquartile range of the log10-transformed bacterial load on the respective skin biopsies of patients belonging to the groups indicated on the x-axis. The results of a pairwise Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test are depicted, ****: p-value < 0.0001, ***: p-value < 0.001, ns: no significant. SB: skin biopsy, NS: nasal swab, TS: tongue swab, TScr: tongue scrape, + /-: positive/negative RLEP qPCR for respective sample.