Table 5. P values of M. leprae antigen-specific ELISA between the leprosy group and control groupsfrom the Kruskal-Wallis test(among three groups) and the Mann-Whitney U test(between two groups).

M. leprae antigens	Leprosy classification	Total	PB	post-MDT	HHC	TB	EC
	MB	<0.0001	0.0007	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.0001	<0.0001
	PB			0.2280	0.1041	0.6321	0.002
	post-MDT				0.8336	0.5773	0.1800
	HHC					0.6818	0.005
	TB						0.0478
NDO-LID	MB	<0.0001	0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001
	PB			0.6523	0.0378	0.0037	0.0373
	post-MDT				0.0331	0.0024	0.0191
	HHC					0.0091	0.4935
	TB						0.0265
ND-O-BSA	MB	<0.0001	0.0022	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001
	PB			0.4216	0.1408	0.0005	0.0209
	post-MDT				0.6462	0.0111	0.1619
	HHC					0.0018	0.1489
	TB						0.0319