Table III.
Mass radical therapy (MRT) and the occurrence of malaria at Nancowry during subsequent months of 2008
| Month | Number of malaria cases |
P | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 (MPI/1000) | 2008 (MPI/1000) | ||
| May | 69 (12.7) | 53 (9.7) | 0.14 |
| June | 81 (14.9) | 51 (9.3) | < 0.01 |
| July | 75 (13.8) | 58 (10.6) | 0.13 |
| August | 80 (14.7) | 83 (15.2) | 0.81 |
| September | 68 (12.5) | 76 (13.9) | 0.50 |
| October | 52 (9.6) | 123 (22.5) | < 0.01 |
| November | 50 (9.2) | 128 (23.4) | < 0.01 |
| December | 32 (5.9) | 134 (24.5) | < 0.01 |
MPI, monthly parasite incidence