Epidemiologial, clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients with ulcerative cutaneous leishmaniasis stratified by cure or failure condition with pentavalent antimonial treatment in Peru.

Mean and standard deviation (SD) or frequencies were compared between cured and failed cases to antimony chemotherapy patients when normally distributed covariates were involved.Median and (25th–75th) percentiles (inter-quartile range) were compared in variables with non normal distribution.