Table 1.

Study population with prevalence RAPLOA, microfilaraemia, high microfilaraemia (> 8000 Mf/ml), very high microfilaraemia (30,000 Mf/ml) in different bio-ecological zones of the two validation study sites.

Study sites	Bio-ecological zones	Number of communities	Number of individuals examined	RAPLOA prevalence (%)	Prevalence microfilaraemia (%)	Prevalence microfilaraemia > 8000 mf/ml (%)	Prevalence microfilaraemia > 30,000 mf/ml (%)
South West DRC	Forest	14	1130	59.6	24.6	7.6	2.3
	Transition forest/savannah	20	1686	16.0	2.6	0.3	0
	Savannah	15	1193	27.5	14	4.1	0.6
	Subtotal	49	4009	31.7	12.2	3.5	0.8
North East DRC	Forest	15	1225	63.9	27.3	7.8	2.3
	Transition forest/savannah	20	1249	2.1	0.4	0	0
	Savannah	15	1617	17.9	4.0	1.1	0.3
	Subtotal	50	4091	26.9	9.9	2.7	0.8
Total		99	8100	29.3	11.0	3.1	0.8