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Published in final edited form as: Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2009 Feb 23;103(5):447–451. doi: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2009.01.007

Table 2.

Cost estimates for the three diagnostic and intervention approaches to clonorchiasis in the first survey in Luong Son district, Hoa Binh province in 2007 (n = 155) and the second survey in Kim Son district, Ninh Binh province between 1999 and 2000 (n = 1155) in northern Vietnam

Diagnostic method by study area No. targeted No. (%) positive No. treated Total cost (US$) Cost per person (US$) Cost per true positive case (US$)
Luong Son, Hoa binh
    Stool examination of the whole population + treatment of those infected   151       2 (1)       2   709.47 4.70 354.73
    Screening for a habit of eating raw fish using a questionnaire then drug treatment for those eating raw fish     35     27.63 0.18   13.82
    Mass treatment for the whole population   151     45.12 0.30   22.56
Kim Son, Ninh Binh
    Stool examination of the whole population + treatment of those infected 1155 289 (25)   289 5518.06 4.78   19.09
    Screening for a habit of eating raw fish using a questionnaire then drug treatment for those eating raw fish   648   244.72 0.21     0.85
    Mass treatment of the whole population 1155   327.61 0.28     1.13