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. 2023 Jan 13;8(1):e009566. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-009566

Table 2.

Summary of reported secondary cases from 1 January 2015 to 30 April 2020, in Zanzibar

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020*
No of household members tested during index case investigation 11 601† 8479 7638 10 782 14 963 8511
Median age (years) of investigated index cases 15 (IQR: 7–25) 16 (IQR: 8–26) 16 (IQR: 7–25) 18 (IQR: 8–28) 17 (IQR: 8–26)
Fraction of index cases who are male (%) 49.7 41.6 43.7 47.4 48.5 53.0
No of positive investigated people (secondary cases) (%) 591† (5.1%) 365 (4.3%) 319 (4.2%) 445 (4.1%) 544 (3.6%) 267 (3.1%)
No of positive investigated people (secondary cases) performed from January to April (%) 169 (6.7%) 167 (4.9%) 74 (4.7%) 164 (4.8%) 177 (5.1%) 267 (3.7%)
Probability to find a secondary case during investigation (95% CI) 0.048† (0.045 to 0.052) 0.041 (0.037 to 0.045) 0.040 (0.036 to 0.044) 0.040 (0.036 to 0.043) 0.035 (0.032 to 0.038) 0.030 (0.027 to 0.034)

*Time period 1 January to 30 April.

†Data available from 1 January to 16 September.