Table 2.

Percentage of children with positive test results from November 2001 case-control study

	Lui		Amadi		Odds ratio	P value
	cases	controls	cases	controls
	N=39	N=31	N=30	N=34
Loa loa	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	Un-defined
M perstans	41.0	9.6	66.6	50.0	3.22	.005
Lymphatic filariasisa	0.0	9.0	0.0	7.6	Un-defined	0.47
Trypanosomiasis	12.8	9.6	0.0	5.8	0.84	0.94
Onchocerciasis	89.7	48.3	96.6	76.4	9.20	0.00003

^aFor lymphatic filariasis the sample sizes were 8, 11, 18 and 13 for Lui and Amadi cases and controls respectively.