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Volume 24, Number 8—August 2018
CME ACTIVITY - Research

Ancylostoma ceylanicum Hookworm in Myanmar Refugees, Thailand, 2012–2015

Elise M. O’ConnellComments to Author , Tarissa Mitchell, Marina Papaiakovou, Nils Pilotte, Deborah Lee, Michelle Weinberg, Potsawin Sakulrak, Dilok Tongsukh, Georgiette Oduro-Boateng, Sarah Harrison, Steven A. Williams, William M. Stauffer1, and Thomas B. Nutman1
Author affiliations: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (E.M. O’Connell, G. Oduro-Boateng, S. Harrison, T.B. Nutman); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (T. Mitchell, D. Lee, M. Weinberg, W.M. Stauffer); Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA (M. Papaiakovou, N. Pilotte, S.A. Williams); University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Masschusetts, USA (N. Pilotte, S.A. Williams); International Organization for Migration, Mae Sot, Thailand (P. Sakulrak, D. Tongsukh); University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (W.M. Stauffer)

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Table 3

Hookworm prevalence and cure rate in US-bound Myanmar refugees in camps along Myanmar–Thailand border with paired samples, by time point, Thailand, 2012–2015*

Species
 T1, n = 1,548
T2, n = 1,548
T3, n = 517
Baseline prevalence, no. (%)
 Cure, no. (%)
 Persistent infection, no. (%)
 Cure, no. (%)
 Persistent infection, no. (%)
Ancylostoma ceylanicum 83/1,548 (5.4) 77/83 (92.8) 6/83 (7.2) 7/7 (100) 0
Necator americanus 393/1,548 (25.4) 271/393 (69) 122/393 (31) 21/50 (42) 29/50 (58)

*The geometric mean time from T1 to T2 was 188.2 (range 48–1,013) d and from T2 to T3 was 46.2 (range 14–413) d. T1, time point 1; T2, time point 2; T3, time point 3.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article

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