TABLE 1.
Lesion-to-healthy-skin ratios, based on the values found in lesions (rump) and healthy control skin (back) for the variables AmB accumulation, blood vessel permeability, total number of cells, and number of macrophagesa
Variable | Lesion-to-healthy-skin ratio |
||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
L. major CL |
L. mexicana CL |
Controls |
|||||||
Papule | Initial nodule | Established nodule | Papule | Initial nodule | Established nodule | Uninf | PL (+) | HL (−) | |
AmB accumulation | 16.2 | 2.5 | 1.2 | 3.7 | 2 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 3.2 | 0.5 |
Blood vessel permeability | 5.9 | 9.4 | 6.8 | 2.6 | 12.5 | 9.5 | 1.7 | 11.7 | 1.2 |
No. of cells | 1.8 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1 | 1.6 | 1.1 |
No. of macrophages | 5.4 | 7.2 | 5.1 | 3 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 4.8 |