Table 2.

A comparison of the performance of PZQ, in either crushed tablet or syrup suspension, for the treatment of intestinal schistosomiasis in Ugandan children aged ⩽6 years and also against those who were either treatment-naive or a prior treatment history of up to three times during the previous year. Diagnosis of infection status was by duplicate smear Kato-Katz technique on two consecutive day stools on first day of the treatment comparison then at 21 or 28-days later

^AThis took place in Lake Victoria villages in February 2008;

^BThese studies took place in Lake Albert villages in July 2010;

^CThese studies took place in different Lake Albert villages in July 2010 to ^B;

^*Cure rate is defined as the percentage of the infected population negative for infection after drug treatment;

^□Egg reduction rate is defined as the percentage reduction in faecal EPG infection intensity as measured after treatment follow-up.