Clinical and Immunological Analysis of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis before and after Different Treatments

Table 5

Delayed type hypersensitivity in intradermic reaction positive and negative volunteers in VT vaccinated and controls.

IDR^a in mm polyvalent leishmanine average ± standard deviation (patients)
Nonvaccinated controls		VT^b vaccinated volunteers
IDR− (69)	IDR+ (18)	IDR− (61)		IDR+ (10)
		Pre-VT	Post-VT	Pre-VT	Post-VT
0.07±0.58	10.41±5.35	0.18±0.8	9.03±3.33	10.38±4.53	13.95±6.42

aThe cutoff point to consider an IDR positive was diameter >5 mm.
bVT: Leishmania amastigotes (La, Lv, Lb, and Lch) after TLCK treatment and NP-40 extraction.