Table 4.

Myeloid and erythroid cells from the bone marrow of dogs with visceral leishmaniasis

	Healthy dogs (N = 10)	Infected dogs (N = 14)
Myeloid:erythroid	1.0 (0.9–1.2)*	2.6 (1.8–5.5)†
Precursor myeloid cells:mature myeloid cells	0.02 (0.01–0.03)	0.02 (0.01–0.03)
Nucleated erythroid precursor cells: nucleated erythroid mature cells	0.03 (0.02–0.1)	0.05 (0.01–0.1)
Precursor myeloid cells (%)	1.0 (0.5–1.5)	1.2 (0.7–1.5)
Mature myeloid cells (%)	46.8 (43.1–48.8)	62.7 (56.6–74.8)†
Nucleated precursor erythroid cells (%)	1.6 (0.9–2.9)	1.2 (0.2–1.8)†
Nucleated mature erythroid cells (%)	44.8 (42.1–46.5)	24.3 (12.0–31.1)†

Significant data are indicated in bold.

* Median (25–75 percentiles).

† P < 0.05 (Mann–Whitney test).