Table 1. Prevalence of S. mansoni and S. haematobium infections according to each diagnostic test and stratified by epidemiological setting.

	Setting A			Setting B			Setting C			All Settings A-B-C
Diagnostic test	No. of children tested	No. of children positive	% positive (95% CI)	No. of children tested	No. of children positive	% positive (95% CI)	No. of children tested	No. of children positive	% positive (95% CI)	No. of children tested	No. of children positive	% positive (95% CI)
S. mansoni diagnosis
Nine Kato-Katz	138	50	36.2	245	176	71.8	242	155	64.0	625	381	61.0
			(28.2–44.3)			(66.2–77.5)			(58.0–70.1)			(57.1–64.8)
Three Kato-Katz (stool day 1)	138	33	23.9	245	120	49.0	242	108	44.6	625	261	41.8
			(16.8–31.0)			(42.7–55.2)			(38.4–50.9)			(37.9–45.6)
One Kato-Katz (stool day 1)	138	29	21.0	245	100	41.0	242	76	31.4	625	205	32.8
			(14.2–27.8)			(34.7–47.0)			(25.6–37.3)			(29.1–36.5)
Three CCA	138	96	62.3	245	205	83.7	242	209	86.4	625	510	81.6
			(54.2–70.4)			(79.0–88.3)			(82.0–90.7)			(78.6–84.6)
One CCA (urine day 1)	138	72	52.2	245	171	69.8	242	173	71.5	625	416	66.6
			(43.8–60.5)			(64.0–75.5)			(65.8–77.2)			(62.9–70.3)
One CCA-L (urine day 1)	138	23	16.7	245	127	51.8	242	93	38.4	625	243	38.9
			(10.4–22.9)			(45.6–58.1)			(32.3–44.6)			(35.1–42.7)
S. haematobium diagnosis
Three urine filtrations	138	0	0	245	0	0	242	29	12.0	625	29	4.6
									(07.9–16.1)			(3.0–6.3)
One urine filtration (urine day 1)	138	0	0	245	0	0	242	6	2.5	625	6	1.0
									(0.5–4.4)			(0.2–1.7)
Three Hemastix test	138	5	3.6	245	20	8.2	242	36	14.9	625	61	9.8
			(0.5–6.7)			(4.7–11.6)			(10.4–19.4)			(7.4–12.1)
One Hemastix test (urine day 1)	138	2	1.4	245	11	4.5	242	24	9.9	625	37	5.9
			(0.0–3.4)			(1.9–7.1)			(6.2–13.7)			(4.1–7.8)

Setting A = Yaoundé, Setting B = Makénéné, Setting C = Njombé.