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. 2020 Oct 15;13:517. doi: 10.1186/s13071-020-04401-x

Table 2.

Spearman’s rank correlations between EPG and DNA copy numbers for each time point among positive tests for each STH species

No. of positive test resultsa ρ P-value
T. trichiura Baseline day 1 272 0.47 < 0.001
Baseline day 2 267 0.45 < 0.001
Follow-up day 1 175 0.47 < 0.001
Follow-up day 2 166 0.51 < 0.001
A. lumbricoides Baseline day 1 68 0.55 < 0.001
Baseline day 2 69 0.36 < 0.001
Follow-up day 1 2 b b
Follow-up day 2 0 b b
Hookworm Baseline day 1 35 0.48 < 0.001
Baseline day 2 34 0.47 < 0.001
Follow-up day 1 7 0.49 0. 2682
Follow-up day 2 13 0.26 0.3833

aPositive according to both diagnostic methods

b–, Sample size is not sufficient for Spearman’s rank correlation analysis

Abbreviations: ρ, Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient; T. trichiura, Trichuris trichiura; A. lumbricoides, Ascaris lumbricoides