Onchocerciasis is not a major cause of blindness in two endemic villages in Sierra Leone

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Table 2 Results of Ov-16 RDT tests in the two villages (Mangobo and Petifu)

	Number of people tested	Number of people positive	Positivity rate (%) (95% CI)	P value
Adults
Patients self-reporting vision loss	31	9	29.0 (13.1–45.0)	0.042
Other volunteers	23	13	56.5 (36.3–76.8)	0.042
Female	27	7	25.9 (9.4–42.3)	0.027
Male	27	15	55.6 (36.8–74.3)	0.027
≤ 50 years	19	10	52.6 (30.2–75.1)	0.190
> 50 years	35	12	34.3 (18.6–50.0)
Total	54	22	40.7 (27.6–53.8)
Children aged 5–9 years
Boys	68	4	5.9 (0.3–11.5)	0.489
Girls	85	3	3.5 (0-7.5)	0.489
Mangobo	19	0	0	0.308
Petifu	134	7	5.2 (1.5–9.0)	0.308
Total	153	7	4.6 (1.3–7.9)

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