Table 3. Prevalence of positive fecal samples in FIPs stratified by enteroparasites.
Parasite | FIP− N = 178 | FIP+ N = 566 | Total N = 744 | P |
Blastocystis sp | 186 (25.0) | 47 (6.3) | 233 (31.3) | 0.105 |
Endolimax nana | 80 (10.7) | 26 (3.5) | 106 (14.2) | 0.875 |
Entamoeba coli | 71 (9.5) | 32 (4.3) | 103 (13.8) | 0.067 |
Entamoeba histolytica | 23 (3.1) | 10 (1.3) | 33 (4.4) | 0.380 |
Giardia lamblia | 10 (1.3) | 5 (0.7) | 15 (2.0) | 0.388 |
Iodamoeba butschlii | 7 (0.9) | 0 | 7 (0.9) | 0.136 |
Entamoeba hartmanni | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | 2 (0.2) | 0.388 |
Trichuris trichiura | 1 (0.1) | 4 (0.5) | 5 (0.6) | 0.003 |
Cryptosporidium sp | 0 | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | 0.023 |
Ascaris lunbricoides | 0 | 2 (0.3) | 2 (0.3) | 0.012 |
Strongyloides stercoralis | 1 (0.1) | 0 | 1 (0.1) | 0.575 |
Hookworms | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
Taenia sp | 0 | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | 0.074 |
Enterobius vermicularis | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
Hymenolepis nana | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
Schistosoma mansoni | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |