Table 4. Human infection rates and parasite DNA rates from 19 MOOH areas in Galle, Sri Lanka.
| Community microfilaria (Mf) rates | Mosquito filarial DNA rates | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluation Unit (EU) | MOOH area | No. of PHM tested | No. people tested | No. of Mf positive (%, 95% CI) | No. of PHM tested | No. of pools tested | No. of pools positive (%, 95% CI) |
| Coastal | Akmeemana | 20 | 2341 | 4 (0.2, 0.07–0.4) | 3 | 93 | 18 (19, 12.6–28.5) |
| Ambalangoda | 18 | 1940 | 1 (0.1, 0.01–0.3) | 3 | 69 | 7 (10, 5.0–19.5) | |
| Balapitiya | 22 | 2445 | 22 (0.9, 0.6–1.4)a | 3 | 68 | 26 (38, 27.6–50.1)a | |
| Bope-poddala | 16 | 2271 | 1 (0.04, 0.01–0.2) | 2 | 44 | 2 (4.5, 1.3–15.1) | |
| Elpitiya | 23 | 2145 | 0 (0) | 4 | 71 | 0 (0) | |
| Galle MC | 15 | 3146 | 13 (0.4, 0.2–0.7)a | 2 | 60 | 16 (26.7, 17.1–39)a | |
| Gonapinuwala | 8 | 793 | 1 (0.1, 0.02–0.7) | 1 | 17 | 0 (0) | |
| Habaraduwa | 19 | 2339 | 2 (0.1, 0.02–0.3) | 3 | 39 | 11 (28, 16.5–43.7) | |
| Hikkaduwa | 34 | 3795 | 3 (0.1, 0.03–0.2) | 4 | 71 | 8 (11, 5.8–20.6) | |
| Induruwa/Bentota | 16 | 1801 | 0 (0) | 3 | 45 | 4 (9, 3.5–20.7) | |
| Karandeniya | 18 | 2072 | 0 (0) | 2 | 48 | 0 (0) | |
| Total | 209 | 25088 | 47 (0.2, 0.1–0.2) | 30 | 625 | 92 (14.7, 12.2–17.7) | |
| Inland | Baddegama | 25 | 2719 | 0 (0) | 6 | 138 | 0 (0) |
| Imaduwa | 17 | 1867 | 1 (0.1, 0.01–0.3) | 4 | 79 | 6 (7, 3.5–15.6) | |
| Neluwa | 13 | 1021 | 2 (0.2, 0.05–0.7) | 3 | 40 | 0 (0) | |
| Niyagama | 13 | 1362 | 0 (0) | 3 | 62 | 0 (0) | |
| Thawalama | 13 | 1026 | 0 (0) | 3 | 50 | 0 (0) | |
| Udugama/Nagoda | 23 | 2061 | 1 (0.1, 0.01–0.3) | 5 | 85 | 0 (0) | |
| Weliwitiya-Divithura | 10 | 955 | 0 (0) | 2 | 48 | 0 (0) | |
| Yakkalamulla | 17 | 1966 | 1 (0.1, 0.01–0.3) | 4 | 81 | 2 (2, 0.7–8.5) | |
| Total | 131 | 12977 | 5 (0, 0.02–0.09) | 30 | 583 | 8 (1.4, 0.7–2.7) | |
a Areas with high W. bancrofti prevalence in humans with microfilariae and filarial DNA rates in mosquitoes.