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

Table 3

Prevalence of intestinal parasitic infection in both males and females during the study (2013 – 2017).

Type of parasite	Female		Male
	No.	Prevalence	No.	Prevalence.
Entamoeba histolytica	9	0.25%	7	0.30%
Cryptosporidium parvum	5	0.14%	1	0.04%
Giardia lamblia	3	0.08%	1	0.04%
Trichuris trichiura	2	0.06%	0	0.00%
Chilomastix mesnili	1	0.03%	0	0.00%
Hymenolepis nana	1	0.03%	0	0.00%
Total infected	21	0.58%	9	0.38%
Total examined	3616		2371