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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 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.

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