Volume 27, Number 9—September 2021
Research
Geographically Targeted Interventions versus Mass Drug Administration to Control Taenia solium Cysticercosis, Peru
Table 3
Summary of surveillance and participation in ring treatment intervention in a study of Taenia solium cysticercosis, Peru*
Characteristics | Study month |
Total | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 24 | ||
No. pigs examined | 748 | 625 | 783 | 751 | 937 | 931 | 989 | 5,764 |
Tongue-positive pigs, no. (%) |
7 (0.9) |
6 (1.0) |
6 (0.8) |
4 (0.5) |
2 (0.2) |
9 (1.0) |
4 (0.4) |
38 (0.7) |
No. screening rings |
7 |
6 |
7 |
3 |
2 |
9 |
3 |
37 |
No. eligible households |
43 |
39 |
58 |
15 |
13 |
71 |
10 |
249 |
No. eligible participants | 193 | 187 | 261 | 72 | 66 | 338 | 36 | 1,153 |
Not treated, no. (%) | 14 (7.3) | 35 (18.7) | 32 (12.3) | 10 (13.9) | 14 (21.1) | 56 (16.6) | 13 (36.1) | 174 (15.1) |
Took 1 dose of NSM, no. (%) | 23 (11.9) | 36 (19.3) | 31 (11.9) | 4 (5.6) | 4 (6.1) | 67 (19.8) | 2 (5.6) | 167 (14.5) |
Took 2 doses of NSM, no. (%) | 156 (80.8) | 116 (62.0) | 198 (75.9) | 58 (80.6) | 48 (72.7) | 215 (63.6) | 21 (58.3) | 812 (70.4) |
*Distinct households, participants, and pigs might be counted more than once in the totals column. NSM, niclosamide.