Table 1.

Total number of inflammatory cells per area and frequencies of mononuclear and polymorphonuclear (neutrophil and eosinophil) cells in lesions from patients with early cutaneous leishmaniasis (E-CL) and late cutaneous leishmaniasis (L-CL).

Parameter	E-CL (n=6)				L-CL (n=12)
	Mean	Median	Minimum	Maximum	Mean	Median	Minimum	Maximum	P value
Number of total cells/field	200.96	188.87	118.44	302.34	388.74	395.63	233.75	551.09	0.0037
% mononuclear cells	97.92	97.97	97.13	98.45	98.66	98.95	96.83	99.45	0.0492
% polymorphonuclear cells	2.73	2.83	2.17	3.25	1.61	1.17	0.66	3.80	0.0192
% neutrophils	2.08	2.03	1.55	2.88	1.35	1.05	0.55	3.17	0.0492
% eosinophils	0.65	0.58	0.34	1.22	0.26	0.18	0.07	0.62	0.0131

Hematoxilin-eosin stained sections were analyzed using light microscopy. All connective tissue from each lesion was evaluated in a power magnification of 400X. The comparisons of percentage for a given parameter between the groups were performed using the nonparametric Mann-Whitney test.