Table 1.

Diagnostic results of 75 laboratory-confirmed cases of CL in military personnel who participated in survival training^*

Diagnostic method†	n/N (%)
kDNA PCR	74/75 (98.7)
Direct microscopy	54/67 (80.6)
Culture	25/48 (52.1)
Real-time PCR	61/74 (82.4)
Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis	59/61 (96.7)
L. (V.) guyanensis	2/61 (3.3)

CL = cutaneous leishmaniasis; kDNA PCR = kinetoplastid DNA-based polymerase chain reaction.

^*One case was diagnosed by histopathology and no other test was performed on this subject.

^†All diagnostic methods were not applied to all cases. Percentages show the number of positive cases over all cases evaluated by the corresponding method.