Table 1. Demographic characteristics and infection status of Gabonese children.

	S.h.infected	S.h.uninfected
Participants pre-tx/post-tx	10/7	10/8
Mean age in years (range)	10.3 (8–14)	11.2 (8–14)
Sex male/female	5/5	4/6
Mean egg counts (range)	31.7 (1–201)	0
Co-infections:
Plasmodium falciparum	4/10	1/10
Ascaris lumbricoides	3/9	3/8
Trichuris trichiura	3/9	6/8
Hookworm	1/9	1/8

Co-infections are depicted as number of participants infected out of total number of participants tested.