Table 2.
Household prevalence of schistosomiasis at the province and village levels, determined by real-time PCR.
| Total Number |
Number Positive | Percentage Positive |
95% CI * | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Province | Hunan | 1099 | 141 | 12.8 | 10.8–14.8 |
| Jiangxi | 1250 | 33 | 2.6 | 1.8–3.5 | |
| Combined | 2349 | 174 | 7.4 | 6.3–7.4 | |
| Hunan | Changjiang | 98 | 7 | 7.1 | 2.0–12. |
| Dongtinghong | 175 | 8 | 4.6 | 1.4–7.7 | |
| Ganzhou | 197 | 23 | 11.7 | 7.2–16.2 | |
| Longwang | 104 | 29 | 27.9 | 19.1–36.6 | |
| Xiangjiang | 61 | 24 | 39.3 | 26.7–52.0 | |
| Xincheng | 173 | 23 | 13.3 | 8.2–18.4 | |
| Xinggang | 118 | 6 | 5.1 | 1.1–9.1 | |
| Zhangshu | 173 | 21 | 12.1 | 7.2–17.1 | |
| Jiangxi | Biaoen | 146 | 8 | 5.5 | 1.7–9.2 |
| Caohui | 118 | 3 | 2.5 | 0–5.4 | |
| Dingshan | 132 | 0 | 0.0 | na | |
| Dongfang | 183 | 7 | 3.8 | 1.0–6.6 | |
| Fuqian | 156 | 4 | 2.6 | 0–5.1 | |
| Huanggin | 172 | 2 | 1.2 | 0–2.8 | |
| Huangjia | 222 | 6 | 2.7 | 0.6–4.9 | |
| Xinhua | 121 | 3 | 2.5 | 0–5.3 |
* 95% confidence interval.