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The prevalence of S. haematobium in the analysed population was 78% with a mean egg count of 28 eggs/10 ml urine (SEM = 5) with a range of 0 to 126 eggs/10 ml of urine.
To confirm their positive diagnosis for schistosomiasis, the enrolled children were asked to provide another urine sample for examination the following day and the mean egg count of the two samples was considered as the baseline intensity of infection.
29 Results were expressed as mean egg count per gram (epg) of feces.
In the placebo groups the change in mean egg count ranged from a 53% decrease to a 115% increase.
Mean egg count as well as number of cases in each class of intensity and intensity of cassette band color varied over the three days of examination.
The mean egg count of S. haematobium egg-positive children was 39.2 eggs per 10 ml urine (standard error of the mean - SEM ± 11.67).
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The prevalence (≅ 65% flocks infected) and mean number of eggs fell in the corresponding autumn sampling, with a substantial number of animals passing no eggs, thus accounting for the significant differences in the very low mean egg counts of ewes at this time.
Treatment efficacy 3 months after the second round of deworming was assessed by calculating cure rate (CR, defined as the proportion of baseline helminth-positive children who became egg-negative after treatment) and egg reduction rate (ERR; formula: 1 – [egg counts after treatment/egg counts at baseline] × 100 based on population geometric mean eggs counts).
Sixteen trials reported egg counts as geometric mean egg counts, four trials as arithmetic mean egg counts, three trials reported both.
The density of infection, expressed by mean egg counts per gramme (epg) paralleled the prevalence data (Table 4).
The proportional reduction in the mean egg counts from before to after treatment is less prone to this error.
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