TABLE 1.
Demographic data for the samples used in this study
| Sample classification by ELISA, microscope examination, and/or EKG | No. of samples |
Age range (yr) | Mean age (yr) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Samples from males | Samples from females | |||
| Venezuelan CD | 120 | 48 | 72 | 29-89 | 47 |
| Guatemalan CD | 11 | 5 | 6 | 8-13 | 10 |
| Venezuelan healthy control | 104 | 57 | 47 | 18-82 | 46 |
| Canadian healthy control | 60 | 28 | 32 | 23-68 | 42 |
| Other parasitic diseases (OPD) | 140 | ||||
| Acute falciparum | 10 | 6 | 4 | 10-36 | 21 |
| Asymptomatic falciparum | 10 | 5 | 5 | 26-45 | 35 |
| Leishmaniasis | 10 | 7 | 3 | 10-50 | 28 |
| Babesiosis | 10 | 28-55 | 41 | ||
| Latent toxoplasmosis | 10 | 2 | 8 | 31-47 | 39 |
| Human African trypanosomiasis | 10 | 4 | 6 | 38-59 | 48 |
| Trichinellosis | 10 | 7 | 3 | 27-42 | 38 |
| Strongyloidiasis | 10 | 7 | 3 | 24-46 | 33 |
| Bancroftian filariasis | 10 | 6 | 4 | 38-62 | 49 |
| Toxocariasis | 10 | 4 | 6 | 20-38 | 27 |
| Echinococcosis | 10 | 7 | 3 | 13-32 | 23 |
| Cysticercosis | 10 | 7 | 3 | 18-58 | 35 |
| Schistosomiasis | 10 | 4 | 6 | 15-47 | 29 |
| Metorchiasis | 10 | 7 | 3 | 26-62 | 44 |