Table 2. A comparison of point-of-care cathodic circulating antigen detection in urine (POC-CCA) and Kato-Katz (KK) diagnostic methods that were applied to samples collected from the community of Candeal, Estância, Sergipe, northeastern Brazil, November 2015 (n = 461).
POC-CCA positive | (%) | POC-CCA negative | (%) | Total | (%) | |
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KK positive | 47 | (10.2) | 8 | (1.7) | 55 | (11.9) |
KK negative | 283 | (61.4) | 123 | (26.7) | 406 | (88.1) |
Total | 330 | (71.6) | 131 | (28.4) | 461 | (100.0) |