Table 1. Prevalence of STH species by sex and age group among school children who were recently dewormed as part of a national deworming programme in Bumula District, western Kenya (n = 525), 2013.
| Population characteristics | Number (and %) infected | ||||
| n | Any STH species | Hookworm | Ascaris lumbricoides | Trichuris trichuria | |
| Sex | |||||
| Male | 286 | 97 (33.9) | 77 (26.9) | 14 (4.9) | 6 (2.1) |
| Female | 239 | 64 (26.8) | 48 (20.1) | 13 (5.4) | 3 (1.2) |
| Total | 525 | 161 (30.6) | 125 (23.8) | 27 (5.1) | 9 (1.7) |
| Age (years) | |||||
| 5–7 | 65 | 26 (30.6) | 23 (27.1) | 1 (1.2) | 2 (2.4) |
| 8–10 | 188 | 51 (27.1) | 40 (21.3) | 8 (4.3) | 3 (1.6) |
| 11–13 | 193 | 63 (32.6) | 47 (24.4) | 15 (7.8) | 1 (0.5) |
| 14–17 | 59 | 21 (35.6) | 15 (25.4) | 3 (5.1) | 3 (5.1) |