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Albendazole Therapy and Enteric Parasites in United States -- Bound Refugees
Steven J. Swanson, M.D., Christina, R. Phares, PhD., Blain Mamo, M.P.H., Kirk E. Smith, D.V.M., PhD., Martin S. Cetron, M.D., and William M. Stauffer, M.D.
New England Journal of Medicine 2012; 366: 1498-1507
This article details a review of data collected for refugees from Africa and Southeast Asia immigrating to the United States from 1993-2007. The data looks at parasites in refugees before and after a mandate by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1999 that all refugees bound for the United States receive a single dose of a drug called albendazole (600 mg) that targets and kills many intestinal parasites.
Plot-Chart
The article presents data in a figure labeled Figure 1 on page 1503. The chart is shown below:
The data in the chart in Figure 1 depicts graphically information contained within Table 3 on page 1504 of the publication. The data in the table shows the percent of refugees with different types of intestinal parasites before mandatory treatment and after mandatory treatment. The study looked at a total of 26,956 refugees of which 22,586 were treated with albendazole and 4370 were untreated. The data in Table 3 splits the population into tables for Africa and Southeast Asia. The chart in Figure 1 combines the data showing the total percentages of patients with parasites with and without treatment...
The X-axis is not indexed and simply displays the type of parasite in no particular order. The Y-axis shows the percent of refugees with a parasite and each grouping of before and after treatment are displayed as a pair with the parasite labeled beneath the pair of columns.
Was the proper chart or graph used to present this data? Why or why not?
The chart in the article is the best way to present a graphical image showing the comparison between the pre- and post-treatment groups of refugees. The summary bar chart condenses the tables of data without error bars or statistics to show the graphical difference between percentages of patients with a type of intestinal parasite in the years before and after the treatment regimen. The simple bars grouped above the individual parasites allow the reader to see the drastic differences in column height and conclude that there is a difference in the numbers of patients with a given parasite for most of the different organisms.
Was this the best way to display the data? What other types of…
References
Swanson, S.J.; Phares, C.R.; Mamo, B.; Smith, K.E.; Cetron, M.S.; Stauffer, W.M. Albendazole Therapy and Enteric Parasites in United States -- Bound Refugees. (2012) New England Journal of Medicine 366: 1498-1507.
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