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Table 2 Place of birth of volunteers

From: Recall of intestinal helminthiasis by HIV-infected South Africans and avoidance of possible misinterpretation of egg excretion in worm/HIV co-infection analyses

 

HIV-positives (n = 170)2

HIV-negatives (n = 65)2

Place of Birth

Numbers

%

95% CI

Numbers

%

95% CI

City of Cape Town

15/170

8.8

5.4, 14.0

3/65

4.6

1.6, 12.7

Western Cape province1

1/170

0.6

0.1, 3.3

0/65

0

0.0, 5.6

Eastern Cape province

151/170

88.8

83.2, 92.7

61/65

93.9

85.2, 97.6

Northern Cape province

1/170

0.6

0.1, 3.3

0/65

0

0.0, 5.6

Gauteng province

1/170

0.6

0.1, 3.3

1/65

1.5

0.3, 8.2

Mpumalanga province

1/170

0.6

0.1, 3.3

0/65

0

0.0, 5.6

  1. CI = confidence interval.
  2. 1Excluding the city of Cape Town.
  3. 2There were no statistically significant differences between the percentages of HIV-positives and HIV-negatives by place of birth.
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