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