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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 9.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2018 Nov 9;379(19):1801–1810. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1706854

Table 1. Characteristics of Study Participants at Baseline.

Treatment Groups
DEC/ALB x 1 DEC/ALB x 2 IVM/DEC/ALB x 1
N 61 61 60
Age Median (range) 34 (18-62) 37 (18-61) 40 (19-60)
Sex (M/F) 34/27 30/31 28/32
Hemoglobin gm/dL (mean ± SD) 11.2 (1.8) 11.2 (1.7) 11.4 (1.8)
Weight kg (mean ± SD) 51 (5) 52 (7) 50 (6)
Microfilaria/mL geomean (Range) 744 (52-8,290) 596 (61-9,656) 699 (55-15,621)
Circulating Filarial Antigen ng/mL geomean (Range) 79 (18-340) 81 (15-325) 72 (17-348)

DEC – diethylcarbamazine, ALB – albendazole, IVM – ivermectin