Webuye Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems Baseline Survey of Soil-Transmitted Helminths and Intestinal Protozoa among Children up to Five Years

Table 2

Types and prevalence of intestinal parasites (percentages are in parentheses).

Variables	Female/male	Total		𝑃-value
Gender distribution	𝑛=386	𝑛=411	𝑛=797
All parasitic infections	197 (51.0)	220 (53.5)	417 (52.3)	0.482
Ascaris lumbricoides	19 (4.9)	19 (4.6)	38 (4.8)	0.843
Hookworm spp.	10 (2.6)	20 (4.9)	30 (3.8)	0.092
Trichuris trichiura	0	1 (0.2)	1 (0.13)	—
Taenia spp.	0	1 (0.2)	1 (0.13)	—
Entamoeba histolytica	35 (9.1)	51 (12.4)	86 (11.2)	0.129
Giardia lamblia	100 (25.9)	108 (26.3)	208 (26.1)	0.905
Entamoeba coli	76 (19.7)	74 (19.2)	150 (18.8)	0.543
Endolimax nana	74 (19.2)	55 (13.4)	129 (16.2)	0.027
Chilomastix mesnili	16 (4.2)	15 (3.7)	31 (3.8)	0.718
Iodomoeba butschlii	16 (4.2)	10 (2.4)	26 (3.3)	0.174