Table 1.

Comparisons of genome-wide genetic similarity between parasites isolated from patients presenting with different forms of cutaneous leishmaniasis

Group/comparison	Identity-by-similarity	Standard deviation of IBS	P-value (test for greater similarity within group than between groups)
LCL	0.980065	0.0131195	0.627744 versus LCL-MCL
			0.50929 versus LCL-DCL
MCL	0.98274	0.00473581	0.545355 versus LCL-MCL
			0.785182 versus MCL-DCL
			0.38874 (S LCL vs. MCL)
			0.553924 (C LCL vs. MCL)
LCL versus MCL	0.98117	0.0104934	N/A
S LCL	0.977682	0.0147224	0.918641 (S LCL vs. C LCL)
			0.689463 (S LCL vs. MCL)
S LCL versus C LCL	0.979914	0.0136714	N/A
S LCL versus MCL	0.979734	0.011677	N/A
C LCL	0.980597	0.0122999	0.312487 (S LCL vs. C LCL)
			0.612314 (C LCL vs. MCL)
			0.502915 (C LCL vs. DCL)
C LCL versus MCL	0.981731	0.00988552	N/A

LCL localised cutaneous leishmaniasis; MCL mucocutaneous leishmaniasis; C LCL contained localised cutaneous leishmaniasis; S LCL spreading localised cutaneous leishmaniasis. N/A not applicable