Prevalence of Intestinal Parasitic Infections among Patients of King Fahd Medical City in Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia: A 5-Year Retrospective Study

Table 1

Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infection during the period of study (2013 - 2017).

Type of parasite	2013		2014		2015		2016		2017
	No.	P	No.	P	No.	P	No.	P	No.	P
Entamoeba histolytica	7	0.52%	2	0.17%	0	0.00%	4	0.29%	3	0.05%
Cryptosporidium parvum	6	0.44%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%
Giardia lamblia	2	0.15%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	1	0.07%	1	0.02%
Trichuris trichiura	1	0.07%	0	0.00%	1	0.07%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%
Chilomastix mesnili	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	1	0.07%	0	0.00%
Hymenolepis nana	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	1	0.07%	0	0.00%
Total infected	16	1.18	2	0.17	1	0.07	7	0.51	4	0.07
Total examined	1354		1158		1521		1373		581