Research Article
Enteroparasitism in Hard-to-Reach Community Dwellers: A Cross-Sectional Study in Ga West Municipality in Ghana
Table 5
Distribution of enteroparasites in underweight, anaemic, and malnourished participants.
| Nutritional status | Associated parasites | Frequency of association with nutritional status |
| Underweight () | S. mansoni | 69 (63.3%) | Hookworm | 27 (24.8%) | E. histolytica | 13 (11.9%) | Severe anaemia () | Hookworm | 19 (61.3%) | G. lamblia | 7 (22.6%) | S. mansoni | 5 (16.1%) | Moderate anaemia () | Hookworm | 22 (37.3%) | E. histolytica | 19 (32.2%) | S. mansoni | 9 (15.3%) | A. lumbricoides | 9 (15.3%) | Mild anaemia () | Hookworm | 11 (35.5%) | G. lamblia | 9 (29.0%) | S. stercoralis | 7 (22.6%) | E. histolytica | 4 (12.9%) | Malnourished () | G. lamblia | 22 (30.6%) | A. lumbricoides | 21 (29.2%) | Hookworm | 19 (26.4%) | E. histolytica | 10 (13.9%) | Severely malnourished () | S. stercoralis | 17 (39.5%) | Hookworm | 11 (25.6%) | G. lamblia | 10 (23.3%) | B. coli | 5 (11.6%) |
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