Table 2.

Table showing the values of the intra- and interpatient coefficients of similarity of selected representative samples

	5MCL-C	5MCL-N	5MCL-O	12MCL-C	12MCL-O	34DL-N	34DL-C1	34DL-C2	34DL-C3	31ML-N1	31ML-N2	9MLC-O	15MCL-N	23ML-N	20ML-n	33ML-0
5MCL-C	1.00
5MCL-N	0.77	1.00
5MCL-O	0.77	0.94	1.00
12MCL-C	0.66	0.72	0.72	1.00
12MCL-0	0.72	0.72	0.72	0.94	1.00
34DL-N	0.69	0.58	0.58	0.69	0.69	1.00
34DL-C1	0.55	0.61	0.66	0.66	0.66	0.75	1.00
34DL-C2	0.69	0.58	0.63	0.75	0.75	0.77	0.75	1.00
34DL-C3	0.72	0.72	0.72	0.66	0.66	0.69	0.77	0.75	1.00
31 M1-N1	0.66	0.72	0.72	0.77	0.77	0.63	0.66	0.63	0.66	1.00
31ML-N2	0.50	0.55	0.50	0.55	0.61	0.58	0.55	0.52	0.50	0.55	1.00
9MCL-O	0.72	0.66	0.66	0.77	0.83	0.69	0.55	0.75	0.61	0.72	0.66	1.00
15MCL-N	0.75	0.63	0.63	0.80	0.80	0.72	0.69	0.72	0.75	0.86	0.58	0.75	1.00
23ML-N	0.63	0.63	0.63	0.75	0.69	0.66	0.58	0.66	0.58	0.80	0.52	0.69	0.83	1.00
20ML-N	0.72	0.77	0.77	0.77	0.83	0.63	0.61	0.63	0.61	0.83	0.55	0.83	0.69	0.69	1.00
33ML-O	0.66	0.61	061	0.77	0.77	0.69	0.67	0.69	0.66	0.72	0.66	0.72	0.80	0.75	0.72	1.00

MCL mucocustaneous leishmaniasis, DL disseminated leishmaniasis, ML mucosal leishmaniasis, N nasal lesion, O oral lesion, C custaneous lesion, N1 and N2 nasal lesion fragments collected at 2 different times, C1-C3 cutaneous lesion fragments collected at different times.