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Table 6 The impact of return treatment on time required for gonorrhoea and chlamydia to be eliminated and on chlamydia prevalence

From: Population movement can sustain STI prevalence in remote Australian indigenous communities

Return treatment probability (%)

Number of eliminations (out of 100 runs)

Years required for elimination of gonorrhoea

  

Median

25th-75th percentile

0

94

25.0

17.0-36.9

5

100

10.3

7.8-13.0

10

100

10.3

7.9-14.0

Return treatment probability (%)

Number of eliminations (out of 100 runs)

Chlamydia prevalence at the end of 60 years (%)

  

Median

25th-75th percentile

0

0

7.0

6.0-8.7

5

2

3.5

2.1-4.6

10

27

1.0

0-2.2

  1. For all simulation runs in the figure, residents with symptoms will be treated at a rate such that 25% of infected individuals receive treatment in 25 days (i.e. at a rate of 0.011 per day). Under return treatment, all symptomatic and a proportion (5% and 10%) of asymptomatic infected non-residents are treated upon return to their home location.