Table 1.
Summary of data on soil-transmitted helminth infection used in the geostatistical analysis of spatial heterogeneity
Country | No. of schools | Median prevalence (%) (range by school) | Mean no. examined | Mean age examined (years) | Reference | ||
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Hookworm | Ascaris lumbricoides | Trichuris trichiura | |||||
Kenya | 64 | 16.7 (0–69.2) | 0 (0–23.4) | 4.7 (0–54.4) | 104.3 | 12.2 | Brooker, unpublished data |
Tanzania | 197 | 43.3 (1.6–93.3) | 0 (0–40) | 0 (0–43.3) | 75.9 | 14.03 | Clements and others21 |
Uganda | 197 | 52.4 (0–90) | 0 (0–65.8) | 0 (0–40) | 68.9 | 10.21 | Kabatereine and others20 |
Zambia | 79 | 11.1 (0–86.7) | 0 (0–333) | 0 (0–21.3) | 59.8 | 13.06 | Mwanza and others, unpublished data |