Table 6.

Calibration results for the children’s age group: demographic and infection data with calibrated model parameters (mean ± SD) for 12 Msambweni villages

Villages	V1	V2	V3	V4	V5	V6	V7	V8	V9	V10	V11	V12
Population	602	286	189	281	353	638	557	921	944	720	815	803
Prevalence (%)	71	67	52	51	50	49	43	32	27	25	24	23
Mean Intensity	126	170	113	116	126	91	77	78	46	48	49	46
Human FOIa	5.9 ± 1.3	5.6 ± 1.4	4.5 ± 1.6	3.2 ± 1.2	4.1 ± 1.5	4.2 ± 1.6	2.3 ± 0.9	2.1 ± 1.3	1.8 ± 1.1	1.9 ± 1.3	2.3 ± 1.5	1.4 ± 1.0
Maximum fecundity variable, ρ0	25 ± 8	43 ± 11	36 ± 13	44 ± 13	45 ± 13	33 ± 13	36 ± 12	48 ± 15	40 ± 15	45 ± 15	45 ± 15	46 ± 14
Crowding threshold variable, w0	116 ± 47	127 ± 42	118 ± 43	123 ± 43	123 ± 42	118 ± 43	123 ± 43	128 ± 43	125 ± 45	130 ± 45	130 ± 44	129 ± 46
Aggregation	0.03 ± 0.01	0.04 ± 0.02	0.03 ± 0.02	0.05 ± 0.02	0.03 ± 0.02	0.03 ± 0.02	0.06 ± 0.02	0.05 ± 0.03	0.05 ± 0.03	0.04 ± 0.02	0.03 ± 0.02	0.05 ± 0.03

^aThe mean rate of worm accumulation per year