Figure 3
Positive test results per analyte/stimulus combination used to construct potential biomarker profiles.
The groups that should be differentiated to indicate M. leprae infection, disease per se and disease classification are shown. The potential profiles indicated are based on the percentage of positive individuals of these particular groups. The cut-off for positivity was based on values for NEC (Supplementary Table S3) per analyte/stimulus combination the percentage of individuals with a positive test result per group is shown. Based on these data the optimal analyte/stimulus combination to differentiate either infected from non-infected groups, patients and non-patients groups or MB and PB patients were selected to construct the potential profiles described.
