Figure 1

Time course of skin lesion development in dogs infected with L. (L.) mexicana . Beagle dogs were infected with 7 × 10⁷ parasites intradermally and lesion size was measured weekly with a caliper (A). Black filled symbols are male dogs and empty symbols are for females. Insert shows the median and range of the lesion size. (B) representative images of lesions at 2, 6, 10 and 14 weeks post-infection. Scale is in cm.