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. 2018 Oct 1;12(10):e0006864. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006864

Table 3. Overview of positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) results and the proportion of hookworm simulations (%) achieving this threshold which do not achieve interruption of transmission.

Prevalence threshold (%) Intervention arm (varied) PPV/NPV Intervention arm (varied) Likelihood (%) of prevalence > threshold Intervention arm (fixed) PPV/NPV Intervention arm (fixed) Likelihood (%) of prevalence > threshold
0.5 0.93/0.94 91.33 0.94/0.29 4.63
1 0.84/0.97 90.13 0.91/0.58 0.86
2 0.61/0.99 85.63 0.90/NaN 0
3 0.44/1.00 80.11 0.90/NaN 0