Table 5.

Frequency of Leishmania species in hsp70-positive samples.

Species	N	% (hsp70+)	% (ID+)
L. braziliensis	340	78.52	84.80
L. guyanensis	43	9.93	10.70
L. lainsoni	8	1.85	2.00
L. shawi	7	1.62	1.75
L. amazonensis	2	0.46	0.50
L. lindenbergi	1	0.23	0.25
Unidentified fragment pattern	32	7.39	-

hsp70+ = percentages relative to the set of hsp70-positive cases. ID+ = percentages relative to the set of cases in which it was possible to determine the species. N = number of samples.