The Incidence, Intensity, and Risk Factors for Soil Transmissible Helminthes Infections among Waste Handlers in a Large Coastal Periurban Settlement in Southern Ghana

Table 2

Intensity of STH infections, 90 and 180 days after albendazole treatment, categorized by the type of waste handling activities.

Type of activity	n	Intensity of helminthes infection (mean egg per gram (epg))		SD^a egg per gram/180 days posttreatment
		90 days/Posttreatment	180 days/Posttreatment
Sweeping	51	—^b	0 (0.0)	0.0
Disposal	18	—	0 (0.0)	0.0
Collection	12	—	1 (8.0)	20.8
Transportation	5	—	2 (33.6)	44.1
Sweeping and disposal	6	—	0 (0.0)	0.0
Sweeping and collection	69	—	5 (6.6)	28.0
Collection and disposal	36	—	2 (1.3)	5.5
Sweeping, collection, and disposal	83	—	2 (0.3)	2.6

^aSD, standard deviation; ^bno STH infections after 90 days of treatment.