TABLE 6.

Measurement of genomic M. ulcerans DNA from tissue samples^a

Reaction 1e	Reaction 2e	Reaction 3e	Mean	SDb	CVc
286	308	328	307	21	6.75
245	200	270	238	35	14.73
32	31	30	31	0.7	2.28
39	34	36	36	2	6.59
402	391	433	409	22	5.42
8,333	8,392	NDd	8,362	42	0.50
7,782	8,340	8,388	8,170	337	4.12
1,273	1,483	1,550	1,435	144	10.04
351	327	325	334	15	4.24
502,378	499,420	493,558	498,452	4,489	0.90
4,585	4,674	4,794	4,684	105	2.25
596	585	489	557	59	10.54
160	161	ND	161	0.4	0.25
153	165	161	160	6	4.08
127	119	123	123	4	3.22

^aCorresponding to 1 μl of tissue extract (100mg/150μl), the values are ordered referring to tissue samples coming from left to right and from levels 1 to 3 according to the schema of the lesion shown in Fig. 3.

^bSD, standard deviation.

^cCV, coefficient of variation.

^dND, not detected.

^eValues are numbers of genome copies.