Description of the two cohorts at enrollment (<i>T₀</i>).

Abstract

*<p>Cohort 1 is composed of 424 residents from 10 villages in Xichang County, Sichuan, China where schistosomiasis was endemic, monitored from 2000 to 2006.</p>†<p>Cohort 2 is composed of 400 residents from 27 villages in two counties in Sichuan, China where schistosomiasis reemerged following reduction of <i>S. japonicum</i> infection prevalence below 1%, monitored from 2007 to 2010.</p>‡<p>Prevalence and infection intensity estimates include all participants in village-wide infection surveys conducted at cohort enrollment: 1,801 individuals in 10 villages in cohort 1, 1,608 individuals in 27 villages in cohort 2.</p>**<p>Participants were asked about water contact behaviors from the start of the rice planting season. In Xichang County (from which cohort 1 participants were drawn) rice planting begins in April, whereas in the two reemerging counties (from which cohort 2 participants were drawn) rice planting begins in May.</p