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Subgroup meta-analysis of cystic echinococcosis for age, sex, and lab methods.
| Variable | Number | Prevalence (%) |
95% CI | I 2 | Q-test | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower | Upper | ||||||
| Age (year) | |||||||
| <30 | 7 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 3.3 | 93.2% | 862.8 | p < 0.001 |
| 30–40 | 9 | 2.8 | 2.1 | 4.2 | 94.5% | ||
| >40 | 6 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 4.8 | 98.7% | ||
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| Sex | |||||||
| Male | 21 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 94.9% | 398.1 | p < 0.001 |
| Female | 10 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 3.9 | 96.2% | ||
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| Lab methods | |||||||
| CIE | 3 | 6.0 | 5.3 | 6.7 | 96.6% | 720.9 | p < 0.001 |
| ELISA | 15 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 98.6% | ||
| IFA | 9 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 97.4% | ||
| ELISA & Others | 4 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 91.8% | ||
