Individual Predisposition, Household Clustering and Risk Factors for Human Infection with Ascaris lumbricoides: New Epidemiological Insights
Figure 2
Mean worm burden at baseline vs. host age and sex.
Fitted points are posterior means calculated across all households from the “full” model (Model 1, see Table 3). Squares and solid lines denote males, circles and dashed lines females. Household risk factors are adjusted to their null levels, i.e. a Bangladeshi family of 2–4 sleeping members with no children, paying no rent, living in a house with a single room, an earth floor and private well and latrine facilities (see Table 4). Error bars represent 95% Bayesian credible intervals.