Table 2.
The detection of E. histolytica/dispar and G. lamblia by formol-ethyl acetate test, spontaneous tube sedimentation test and combined diagnostic methods among primary schoolchildren in Amhara region, 2019.
| Characteristics | Total (n) | FECT [n (%)] |
STST [n (%)] |
Combined total n [(%)] |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E. h/d | G. l | E. h/d | G. l | E. h/d | G. l | |||
| Age (year) | 6–9 | 253 | 35 (13.8) | 7 (2.8) | 32 (12.6) | 14 (5.5) | 45 (17.9) | 16 (6.3) |
| 10–14 | 591 | 106 (17.9) | 27 (4.6) | 133 (22.5) | 33 (5.6) | 156 (26.4) | 46 (7.8) | |
| Sex | M | 436 | 86 (19.7) | 24 (5.5) | 88 (20.2) | 32 (7.3) | 118 (27.1) | 40 (9.2) |
| F | 408 | 55 (13.5) | 10 (2.5) | 77 (18.9) | 15 (3.7) | 83 (20.3) | 22 (5.4) | |
| Residence | Rural | 745 | 131 (17.6) | 31 (4.2) | 152 (20.4) | 44 (5.9) | 187 (25.1) | 57 (7.7) |
| Urban | 99 | 10 (10.1) | 3 (3.0) | 13 (13.1) | 3 (3.0) | 14 (14.1) | 5 (5.1) | |
| Total | 844 | 141 (16.7) | 34 (4.0) | 165 (19.5) | 47 (5.6) | 201 (23.8) | 62 (7.3) | |
FECT = formol-ethyl acetate, STST = spontaneous tube sedimentation test, E. h/d = E. histolytica/dispar, G. l = G. lamblia.