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Table 3 Blood sampling results showing number of people infected with microfilaria of Wuchereria bancrofti in the year 2004 (four years of MDA)

From: Implications of low-density microfilariae carriers in Anopheles transmission areas: molecular forms of Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus populations in perspective

Study communities

Number examined

Number positive (mf density/ml of blood)

Geometric mean intensity (mf/ml)

Amanful

61

0

0

Ayesuano

69

1 (4)

1.0

Dago

228

4 (1 – 15.3)

1.0

Fawomanyo

66

0

0

Hwida

88

2 (5 – 21)

1.0

Kyiren

161

0

0

Mampong

63

0

0

Obiri

70

0

0

Okyereko

277

10 (1 – 155.6)

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