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. 2012 Aug 7;5:157. doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-157

Table 6.

Estimated true number of cases and prevalence, by stage, project and overall

Project
Estimated number of cases (95% confidence interval)
Prevalence in% (95% confidence interval)
  Observed True cases among observed True cases overall Observed† True‡
Kiri
stage 1
114
135, 143 (127–158)
177, 315 (255–388)
0.23
0.31, 0.56 (0.45-0.69)
stage 2
107
86, 71 (55–86)
86, 189 (145–257)
0.22
0.15, 0.33 (0.26-0.45)
Total
221
221, 214 (207–219)
263, 507 (429–608)
0.45
0.46, 0.90 (0.76-1.07)
Adjumani
stage 1
692
868, 913 (863–963)
1129, 1628 (1485–1775)
0.44
0.38, 0.54 (0.49-0.59)
stage 2
727
551, 463 (410–513)
648, 993 (872–1128)
0.46
0.22, 0.33 (0.29-0.38)
Total
1419
1419, 1375 (1360–1389)
1777, 2618 (2436–2811)
0.90
0.59, 0.87 (0.81-0.94)
Arua-Yumbe
stage 1
327
404, 392 (366–417)
495, 624 (564–693)
0.12
0.14, 0.17 (0.15-0.19)
stage 2
243
166, 135 (109–162)
153, 262 (214–321)
0.09
0.04, 0.07 (0.06-0.09)
Total 570 570, 527 (510–540) 648, 888 (816–974) 0.21 0.18, 0.24 (0.22-0.27)

†Observed cases divided by the total population actually screened. ‡Estimated cases divided by the total population targeted for screening.

Estimated figures indicate, respectively, sum of best-fitting values for each screening session, median of bootstrapping replicate samples (95% percentile of bootstrapping samples).