Research Article
Prevalence and Factors Associated with Intestinal Parasitic Infections among Pregnant Women in West Gojjam Zone, Northwest Ethiopia
Table 2
The distribution of intestinal parasite infection among pregnant women in each woredas, 2017.
| | Types parasitic infect | Types of parasites | West Gojjam Zone woredas | | Burie () | Debube Achefer () | Finote Selam () | Jabi Tihnan () | Mecha () | Total () |
| | Single infection | Hookworm | 11 | 16 | 42 | 40 | 9 | 118 | | A. lubricoides | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | | S. mansoni | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | E. vermicularis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | E. histolytica or E. dispar | 14 | 24 | 11 | 0 | 38 | 87 | | G. lamblia | 16 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 34 | | Double infection | HW+AL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | HW+TT | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | AL+TT | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | HM+EH | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 12 | | HW+GL | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | | SS+GL | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | | GL+EH | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 11 | | Triple infection | HW+GL+EH | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | | Total | 44 (5.9) | 48 (6.5) | 85 (11.4) | 43 (5.8) | 57 (7.7) | 277 (37.3) |
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HW: hookworm; EH: E. histolytica; GL : G. lamblia; SM: S. mansoni; AL: A. lumbricoides; SS: S. stercoralis; TT: T. trichiura; EM: E. vermicularis. |
