First Serological Study Revealing High Humoral Response and Evidence for Antigenic Heterogeneity in Leishmania donovani Induced CL in Sri Lanka

Table 4

Comparison of mean ELISA values obtained for sera of CL patients, healthy individuals (NEHC and EHC), patients with other skin diseases (NCL), and patients with other systemic diseases (NVL).

Serum samples	ELISA absorbance,	Confidence interval of 95%		value (CL versus other sera group)
		Lower limit	Upper limit
CL		0.286	0.324
NEHC		0.118	0.140	≤0.001
EHC		0.087	0.111	≤0.001
NCL		0.097	0.125	≤0.001
NVL		0.051	0.075	≤0.001