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. 2012 Jul 24;6(7):e1726. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001726

Figure 3. Geometric mean fecal egg counts according to the sampling effort.

Figure 3

Geometric mean fecal egg counts before and after PZQ treatment, by the number of days of stool specimen collection (x-axis), based on children diagnosed “infected” following maximum Kato-Katz thick smear sampling effort. (a) S. mekongi infected at baseline (day 0), n = 79; days 28–30 after treatment, n = 14; and (b) O. viverrini infected at baseline (day 0), n = 89; days 28–30 after treatment, n = 11. Each point on a curve represents the geometric mean fecal egg count for each sampling effort (number of Kato-Katz thick smears examined per stool specimen).