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From: Social and environmental conditions related to Mycobacterium leprae infection in children and adolescents from three leprosy endemic regions of Colombia

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Impact of socioeconomic and geography on M. leprae levels. Anti-natural octyl disaccharide-leprosy IDRI diagnostic (NDO-LID) antibody levels in children and adolescents were measured by ELISA, using either protein A, anti- IgM or anti-IgG to detect responses. In a, samples were stratified by socioeconomic status as either low-low (n = 42) or low or medium-low (n = 40). In b, samples were stratified by geographic source as UAChR (n = 18), Caribbean Region (n = 43), or Andean Region (n = 21). In c, samples from the low-low socioeconomic group were subdivided by geographic source as UAChR (n = 41), Caribbean Region (n = 43), or Andean Region (n = 17). Data are displayed as box and whisker plots, with the box representing the Q1 to Q3 interquartile range and the horizontal bar representing the median of the optical density of the samples. Individual dots indicate outliers, and p-values are indicated by the lines above each indicated group

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