Table 5. Antigenaemia prevalences in two age groups in villages that received mass drug administration alone or combined with vector control, Tirukoilur, India.
| Treatment in villages | Age group | 1999–2002 |
2003–04 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| % positive (number tested) | % positive (number tested) | |||
| Mass drug administration (MDA) alone | 2–5 | 7.2a (333) | 4.5a (200) | |
| MDA with vector control | 3.4a (366) | 2.0b (200) | ||
| MDA alone | 15–25 | 20.4c (334) | 19.5c (200) | |
| MDA with vector control | 17.7d (361) | 5.5e (200) |
a,b,c,d,e Data sharing the same superscript letter do not differ statistically significantly (based on χ² test).