Table 7.
Infection prevalences in households and in rodents captured in spatially associated peridomestic and plantation trap locations. Nd: no data.
| Humans: Number +ve/n Tested 1 | Rodents: Number +ve/n Tested (Proportion) 2 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peridomestic Locations | Plantation Locations | |||||
| Home-stead ID | LST | ACL scars | Individual rodents | Capture events | Individual rodents | Capture events |
| 1 | 5/7 | 3/7 | Nd | Nd | 32/63 (0.51) | 49/119 (0.41) |
| 2 | 1/4 | 0/4 | 1/3 (0.33) | 1/3 (0.33) | 6/17 (0.35) | 6/20 (0.30) |
| 3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 4/26 (0.15) | 4/30 (0.13) | 55/116 (0.47) | 98/201 (0.49) |
| 4 | 2/2 | 2/2 | 1/3 (0.33) | 1/3 (0.33) | 17/33 (0.52) | 20/39 (0.51) |
| 5 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 (0.00) | 0/1 (0.00) | 31/56 (0.55) | 55/110 (0.50) |
| 6 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 6/10 (0.60) | 6/10 (0.60) | 48/86 (0.56) | 66/125 (0.53) |
| 7 b | 0/1 | 0/1 | Nd | Nd | 6/32 (0.19) | 7/39 (0.18) |
| 8 b | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1/1 (1.00) | 1/1 (1.00) | 8/20 (0.40) | 11/30 (0.37) |
| sum | 10/21 | 7/21 | 13/44 (0.30) | 13/48 (0.27) | 203/423 (0.48) | 312/683 (0.46) |
1 Infection is indicated by LST+ve and/or ACL scars attributed to Leishmania infection. 2 Infection is indicated by qPCR and/or PCR of rodent tissue samples as described [6]. b Xenodiagnosis was performed on rodents captured at all homesteads except for these two.