Data for "Prevalence and predictors of Strongyloides stercoralis infections in Necator americanus endemic communities in southern India and Malawi." – Data Codebook

Persistent identifier

10.17037/DATA.00004855

Description

This dataset contains quantitative PCR (qPCR) laboratory results for Strongyloides stercoralis from biobanked stool samples collected during baseline (pre-intervention) assessments of the DeWorm3 community-based cluster randomised trial.

Samples were collected from two sites: Tamil Nadu, India (6,091 samples) and Mangochi, Malawi (4,234 samples) during 2017-2018.

Demographic, socioeconomic, and environmental data collected during baseline census and surveys used for this analysis are hosted separately at https://doi.org/10.25934/PR00010754.

Data Codebook

Dataset contains four variables, outlined below.

Variable Name Variable Label Answer Label Answer Code Variable Type
study_site Study site     Numeric
    India 1  
    Malawi 2  
unique_id Unique individual ID Open ended   Numeric
st_qpcr_yn Positive for S. Stercoralis (qPCR CT < 40)     Numeric
    No 0  
    Yes 1  
st_qpcr_ct qPCR CT values (relevant when st_qpcr_yn=1)     Numeric