Table 2. Pre-treatment S. haematobium infection prevalences in the nine EMINI study sites in Mbeya Region, Tanzania.
S. haematobium (total population) | S. haematobium (school-aged children) | |||||
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Study site | No. of participants (households) | No. of infections | Infection prevalence % (95% CI) | No. of participants | No. of infections | Infection prevalence % (95% CI) |
Igurusi | 1947 | 307 | 15.8 | 695 | 208 | 29.9 |
(514) | (14.2–17.5) | (26.6–33.4) | ||||
Itaka | 1924 | 225 | 11.7 | 809 | 171 | 21.1 |
(369) | (10.3–13.2) | (18.5–24.1) | ||||
Kyela | 2261 | 184 | 8.1 | 853 | 96 | 11.3 |
(534) | (7.1–9.3) | (9.3–13.6) | ||||
Mlowo | 2139 | 100 | 4.7 | 898 | 82 | 9.1 |
(494) | (3.9–5.7) | (7.4–11.2) | ||||
Utengule | 1722 | 62 | 3.6 | 627 | 36 | 5.7 |
(454) | (2.8–4.6) | (4.2–7.9) | ||||
Iyunga | 1503 | 19 | 1.3 | 641 | 10 | 1.6 |
(336) | (0.8–2.0) | (0.8–2.9) | ||||
Ruanda | 1676 | 15 | 0.9 | 669 | 6 | 0.9 |
(406) | (0.5–1.5) | (0.4–2.0) | ||||
Isongole | 2105 | 2 | 0.1 | 806 | 1 | 0.1 |
(542) | (0.0–0.4) | (0.0–0.9) | ||||
Santylia | 2003 | 0 | 0 | 730 | 0 | 0 |
(540) | ||||||
All Sites | 17280 | 914 | 5.3 | 6728 | 610 | 9.1 |
(4189) | (5.0–5.6) | (8.4–9.8) |
Shown are the prevalences in the total population (left) and for school-aged children only (5 to 18 years, right). CI = confidence interval.