Table 2.

Summary of epidemiological parameters for Opisthorchis viverrini estimated in this study. TH relates to parameters estimated from surveys in Thailand and LAO relates to surveys in Laos (table 1).

parameter	symbol	posterior mean	95% credible interval
worm aggregation	μk	0.36	0.12–0.55
proportion of worms recovered by expulsion	r	0.44	0.42–0.45
egg output from 1 worm	λ (TH)	72	66–78
	λ (LAO)	20	13–30
density-dependence	γ (TH)	0.98	0.96–0.99
	γ (LAO)	0.82	0.74–0.90
egg dispersion	h (TH)	0.40	0.32–0.48
	h (LAO)	0.63	0.47–0.79