Table 1.
Clinical description of the study population.
Table 2.
Contingency tables comparing agreement between smear and LST among different clinical forms of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis.
Table 3.
LST and smear results in the different age groups.
LSTprev: prevalence of LST positive cases. SMEARprev: prevalence of lesion’s smear positive cases.
Fig 1.
Leishmanin Skin Test (LST) induration among 733 individuals with diagnostic work up classified according to clinical form and result of lesion’s smear.
Median and inter quartile range error bars drawn for each group. P values between groups calculated with Mann Whitney´s test.
Table 4.
Variations in Leishmanin Skin Test (LST) reactivity and lesion’s smear result according to lesion age of > or ≤ 21 days among 674 individuals with cutaneous lesions without mucosal involvement.
P values between groups calculated with Chi square test(X2) and the Yates`correction for continuity.