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Table 2.

Summary of published high-quality studies quantifying prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infection in the United States from 1942 to 1982

Study and year	Study location	Study design	Population description	N	Hookworm (%)	T. trichiura (%)	A. lumbricoides (%)	S. stercoralis (%)
Headlee and Cable, 1942¹⁰	KY	College-based	College students, 70% Appalachia	2,393	14.6	7.9	5.1	3.8
Young, 1955¹¹	TN	School-based	Rural poor, 5- to 16-year-old children	2,908	19.6	1.4	6.1	0.1
Atchley and others, 1956¹²	KY	Community-based random sample	January to March 1955	1,800	0.5	14.6	21.3	2.6
Atchley and others, 1956¹²	KY	Community-based random sample	April to July 1955	843	0	24.2	26.8	1.2
Fulmer and Huemphner, 1965¹³	KY	School-based	Native-born 6–12 years old	366	3.6	55.2	48.6	3.8
Healy and others, 1969¹⁴	NC	School-based	Cherokee Native Americans 6–16 years	631	3.0	38.0	49.4	–^*
Gloor and others, 1970¹⁵	KY	School-based	10–14 years old	439	14.8	4.8	7.7	0
Martin, 1972¹⁶	GA	School-based	Caucasian children 5–15 years	3,729	4.6	0.5	1.3	–
Martin, 1972¹⁷	GA	Community-based random sample	550 Caucasians, 199 African-Americans	749	13.6	0.5	4.3	–
Morgan and others, 1972¹⁸	LA	Community-based random sample	Lowest 25% socioeconomic strata	1,651	0.4	12.3	5.3	0.3
Sargent and others, 1972¹⁹	SC	School-based	32% African-American, 5–15 year olds	2,932	1.8	1.1	21.5	–
Hubbard and others, 1974²⁰	LA	School-based	Mostly African-Americans, 5 years old	887	0.1	5.3	2.3	–
Farhadian and Schneider, 1975²¹	LA	Community referral to health center	10 months to 7 years old	1,078	0.1	14.5	3.9	–
Walzer and others, 1982²²	KY	School-based survey	Native-born 3–7 years old	561	0.2	12.6	14.4	3.0

Denotes that S. stercoralis testing was not performed as part of this survey.