The Associations of Leishmania major and Leishmania tropica Aspects by Focusing Their Morphological and Molecular Features on Clinical Appearances in Khuzestan Province, Iran

Table 2

Personal information, lesion characteristics, shapes, and sizes of amastigotes in L. major and L. tropica isolated from patients in three locations of study sites.

Criteria		Lesion type in L. tropica	Lesion types in; L. major				Morphometric characteristics; of L. tropica amastigotes			Morphometric characteristics of L. major amastigotes
							Size of; amastigotes (µm)	Shapes of amastigotes		Sizes of; amastigotes (µm)		Shapes of amastigotes
								Regular				Regular		Irregular
Age group (years)		Dry	Wet		Dry	Mixed	2-3	Round	Oval	3-4	>4	Round	Oval	Pear	Cigarette	Spindle
Age; ranges	Total		*C	*NC
<1	4	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	2	0	1	0
1–3	9	1	5	2	1	0	1	1	0	6	2	2	3	2	1	0
3–5	11	1	5	1	2	1	1	1	0	7	3	1	9	0	0	0
5–10	12	2	5	2	3	1	2	1	1	7	3	2	6	1	1	0
10–15	18	2	10	3	2	1	2	1	1	12	4	3	11	1	1	0
15–25	27	2	17	3	3	2	2	1	1	20	5	2	20	1	1	1
>25	18	1	12	4	1	0	1	0	1	15	2	1	11	1	2	2
Total (%)	99	9	56	17	12	5	9	5 (55.5)	4 (44.4)	71 (78.9)	19 (21.1)	12 (13.3)	62 (68.9)	6 (6.7)	7 (7.7)	3 (3.3)
			70 (77.7)		17 (18.9)							74 (85.5)		16 (17.7)
			90					9		90		90

C: Classic and *NC: Nonclassic.