Table 5.
Prevalence of schistosomes and soil-transmitted helminths among schoolchildren in Shinyanga region
| District | Locality | Helminth eggs in stool |
S. haematobium eggs in urine |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. exam. | Hookworm egg posit. (%) | No. exam. | No. posit. (%) | ||
| Kahama | Mseki | 197 | 14 (7.1) | 226 | 25 (11.1) |
| Kahama | Bukomela | 170 | 29 (17.1) | 186 | 42 (22.6) |
| Bukombe | Masumbwe | 194 | 25 (12.9) | 200 | 11 (5.5) |
| Shinyanga Rura | Luhumbo | 188 | 12 (6.4) | 198 | 60 (30.3) |
| Kishapu | Songwa | 198 | 0 (0.0) | 222 | 55 (24.8) |
| Maswa | Shishiyu | 206 | 12 (5.8) | 214 | 40 (18.7) |
| Meatu | Ngugunu | 178 | 4 (2.2) | 186 | 14 (7.5) |
| Bariadi | Sapiwi | 134 | 2 (1.5) | 159 | 18 (11.3) |
| Total | 1,465 | 98 (6.7) | 1,591 | 265 (16.7) | |