Table 2.

Demographics and clinical characteristics of reactional patients recruited longitudinally^§.

#	area	RJ	LR	BI*	PGL-I*	sex	age*
1	Bangladesh	BL	RR	2+	0.95	male	36
2	Bangladesh	BL	RR	2+	0.27	female	39
3	Bangladesh	BL	RR	0	1.82	male	36
4	Bangladesh	BL	RR	2+	1.17	male	32
5	Brazil	BL	RR	3.2+	0,43	male	35
6	Brazil	BL	RR	2.42+	0.07	male	29
7	Brazil	BL	RR	4.28+	1.02	female	42
8	Nepal	BT	RR	0.25+	0.07	female	40
9	Ethiopia	BB	RR	0	0.15	male	33
10	Netherlands	BL	RR	5+	1.83	male	17

^§Blood samples were collected from 10 patients at 3 time points: at diagnosis of leprosy in the absence of any clinical signs of reactions, at diagnosis of reactions and after treatment; * at recruitment before treatment.

RJ: Ridley Joplin classification; LR: Leprosy Reaction; RR: reversal reaction.

BI: bacterial index; PGL-I: OD at 450 nm in anti-PGL-I antibody ELISA (threshold for positivity: OD₄₅₀ = 0.2).