Histological and parasitological distinctive findings in clinically-lesioned and normal-looking skin of dogs with different clinical stages of leishmaniosis

Table 2 Parasite load by means of Leishmania-specific IHC and qPCR on paired skin samples from the dogs studied based on disease stage

Abbreviations: qPCR, quantitative PCR IHC Leishmania immunohistochemistry, SD standard deviation
^aFor method of grading, see Methods
^bWilcoxon Signed-rank test: Z = -4.345, P < 0.0001
^cWilcoxon Signed-rank test: Z = -2.887, P = 0.004
^dMann-Whitney U-test: Z = -2.169, P = 0.03
^eWilcoxon Signed-rank test: Z = -3.274, P = 0.001
^fMann-Whitney U-test: Z = -1.943, P = 0.052
^gDelta CT (difference of expression between Leishmania CT -18S CT)
^hWilcoxon Signed-rank test: Z = -3.332, P = 0.001
ⁱWilcoxon Signed-rank test: Z = -2.023, P = 0.043
^jMann-Whitney U-test: Z = -2.021, P = 0.043
^kWilcoxon Signed-rank test: Z = -2.691, P = 0.007
^lMann-Whitney U-test: Z = -2.026, P = 0.043

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