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Volume 27, Number 9—September 2021
Research

Geographically Targeted Interventions versus Mass Drug Administration to Control Taenia solium Cysticercosis, Peru

Seth E. O’NealComments to Author , Ian W. Pray, Percy Vilchez, Ricardo Gamboa, Claudio Muro, Luz Maria Moyano, Viterbo Ayvar, Cesar M. Gavidia, Robert H. Gilman, Armando E. Gonzalez, Hector H. Garcia, and for the Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru
Author affiliations: Oregon Health & Science University–Portland State University School of Public Health, Portland, Oregon, USA (S.E. O’Neal, I.W. Pray); Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru (S.E. O’Neal, P. Vilchez, R. Gamboa, C. Muro, L.M. Moyano, H.H. Garcia); Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima (V. Ayvar, C.M. Gavidia, A.E. Gonzalez); Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. (R.H. Gilman)

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Table 1

Village and household characteristics at baseline in each arm of a study on control of Taenia solium cysticercosis, Peru*

Characteristics Ring screening
 Ring treatment
 Mass treatment
Pig treatment No pig treatment Pig treatment No pig treatment Pig treatment No pig treatment
No. villages
 4
 4
4
 4
3
 4
Human residents 1,736 (16.5) 1,741 (16.5) 1,796 (17.0) 1,885 (17.9) 1,665 (15.8) 1,728 (16.4)
Residents >2 y of age
 1,662 (16.5)
 1,666 (16.5)
1,736 (17.2)
 1,789 (17.7)
1,594 (15.8)
 1,647 (16.3)
No. pigs at baseline 457 556 349 395 369 305
Seropositive pigs
 194 (42.5)
 224 (40.3)
148 (42.4)
 190 (48.1)
141 (38.2)
 96 (31.5)
Households 444 (16.9) 466 (17.7) 416 (15.8) 454 (17.3) 403 (15.3) 444 (16.9)
Latrine 249 (58.1) 346 (74.3) 249 (59.9) 311 (68.5) 330 (81.9) 341 (76.8)
Treated water source 394 (88.7) 427 (91.6) 291 (70.0) 352 (77.5) 357 (88.6) 350 (78.8)
Raise pigs 230 (51.8) 251 (53.9) 217 (52.2) 241 (53.1) 178 (44.2) 253 (57.0)
   Corral for pigs 146 (63.5) 132 (52.6) 82 (37.8) 118 (49.0) 114 (64.0) 107 (42.3)

*Values are no. (%), except as indicated.

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