Table 3.
Comparison of leprosy classifications between the groups stratified by bacilloscopic index.
| Bacilloscopic Index |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Classification | ≥ 2 (n = 21) | < 2⁎ (n = 35) | p-value |
| Operational | |||
| Paucibacillary | 0 | 8 | 0.020 |
| Multibacillary | 21 | 27 | |
| Madrid | |||
| Indeterminate | 0 | 2 | 0.001 |
| Tuberculoid | 0 | 9 | |
| Borderline | 6 | 15 | |
| Lepromatous | 15 | 9 | |
| Ridley & Joplin | |||
| Indeterminate | 0 | 2 | 0.001 |
| Tuberculoid-Tuberculoid | 0 | 4 | |
| Tuberculoid-Borderline | 0 | 5 | |
| Borderline-Borderline | 3 | 14 | |
| Borderline-Lepromatous | 3 | 2 | |
| Lepromatous-Lepromatous | 15 | 8 | |
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Including negative slit skin smears.