Research Article
Predictors of Intestinal Parasites among Food Handlers in Goba Town, Southeast Ethiopia, 2020
Table 2
Intestinal parasite prevalence among food handlers (
) working in Goba town, 2020.
| | Type of parasites | Frequency | Percentage |
| | Single infection | | Giardia lamblia | 42 | 14.6% | | Cyst of Giardia lamblia | 12 | 4.2% | | Trophozoite of Giardia lamblia | 30 | 10.4% | | Entamoeba histolytica/dispar | 31 | 10.8% | | Trophozoite of Entamoeba histolytica/dispar | 24 | 8.3% | | Cyst of Entamoeba histolytica/dispar | 7 | 2.4% | | Schistosoma mansoni | 2 | 0.7% | | Enterobius vermicularis | 4 | 1.4% | | Ascaris lumbricoides | 8 | 2.8% | | Taenia species | 5 | 1.7% | | Double infection | | Cyst of Giardia lamblia and cyst of Entamoeba histolytica/dispar | 3 | 1% | | Taenia saginata and cyst of Giardia lamblia | 1 | 0.3% | | Cyst of Giardia lamblia and Trophozoite of Entamoeba histolytica/dispar | 2 | 0.7% |
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Cyst of Giardia lamblia and cyst of Entamoeba histolytica/dispar 3(1%).
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