Table 1.

Clinical characteristics, prevalence of helminths, and outcome of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) patients^*

	Early treatment group (N = 45)	Control group (N = 45)	P value
Male (%)	34/45 (75.6%)	32/45 (71.1%)	0.64†
Age, mean in years ± SD	25.7 ± 10.0	25.5 ± 9.8	0.93‡
BMI, median in kg/m2 (IQR)	21.3 (19.4–24.7)	22.3 (20.7–24.0)	0.67§
No. (%) with 1 lesion	34 (75.6%)	34 (75.6%)
No. (%) with 2 lesions	7 (16.7%)	8 (17.8%)
No. (%) with 3 lesions	4 (8.9%)	3 (6.7%)
Lesion size,¶ median (IQR), mm2	180 (70–400)	198 (100–400)	0.78§
No (%) helminth
Mean egg count/gm stool (range)
Hookworm	43/45 (95.6%)	38/45 (84.4%)	0.079†
	400 [24–1920]	423 [24–2332]
Trichiura trichuris	30/45 (66.7%)	15/45 (33.3%)	0.0016†
	324 [24–840]	361 [24–2424]
Ascaris lumbricoides	31/45 (68.9%)	25/45 (55.6%)	0.019†
	9786 [24–42,428]	10,803 [24–48,404]
Strongyloides stercoralis	2/45 (4.4%)	3/45 (6.7%)	1.00‖
Schistosoma mansoni	6/45 (13.3%)	7/45 (15.6%)	0.76†
	276 [24–768]	124 [24–288]
Time to cure, median (IQR), days	98 (64–138)	88 (56–126)	0.13**

^*BMI = body mass index; IQR = interquartile range; SD = standard deviation.

^†χ² test.

^‡Student's t test.

^§Wilcoxon rank-sum test.

^¶The lesion with the greatest area at presentation was considered to be the main lesion.

^‖Fisher's exact test.

^**Log-rank test.