Table 4.
Frequency distribution of clinical data related to the result of the ML Flow serological test in leprosy cases (n = 26).
| Clinical data of cases | ML Flow cases |
Total | p-valuea | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive |
Negative |
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| n | % | n | % | n (%) | |||
| Clinical form | Indeterminate | ‒ | ‒ | 1 | 3.8 | 1 (3.8) | 0.01 |
| Tuberculoid | ‒ | ‒ | 3 | 11.5 | 3 (11.5) | ||
| Borderline | 4 | 15.4 | 1 | 3.8 | 5 (19.2) | ||
| Lepromatous | 10 | 38.5 | 7 | 27.0 | 16 (65.5) | ||
| Bacilloscopy | Positive | 12 | 46.1 | 4 | 15.4 | 16 (61.5) | 0.00 |
| Negative | 2 | 7.7 | 8 | 30.8 | 10 (38.5) | ||
| Biopsy b | Suggestive of leprosy | 5 | 41.7 | 5 | 41.7 | 10 (83.4) | 0.31 |
| Negative | ‒ | ‒ | 2 | 16.6 | 2 (16.6) | ||
| Degree of disability | With DPD | 5 | 19.2 | 4 | 15.4 | 9 (34.6) | 0.61 |
| Without DPD | 9 | 34.6 | 8 | 30.8 | 17 (65.4) | ||
| Operational classification | Paucibacillary | ‒ | ‒ | 5 | 19.2 | 5 (19.2) | 0.01 |
| Multibacillary | 14 | 53.8 | 7 | 27.0 | 21 (80.8) | ||
DPD, Degree of Physical Disability, according to the World Health Organization.
a
Fishers' exact test.
b
14 cases had no information about the biopsy in their medical records.