Table 4. Percentage of intestinal parasitic infection among school children from rural and urban in Peninsular Malaysia.

Name of intestinal	Percentage of positive sample
parasite	Urban, n = 838	Rural, n = 922	Total, n = 1760
Blastocystis sp.	3.40%	13.70%	10.6% (n = 186)
Trichuris trichiura	0%	6.40%	3.4% (n = 65)
Ascaris lumbricoides	0%	2.80%	1.5% (n = 26)
Hookworm	0%	1.70%	0.9% (n = 16)
Giardia sp	0%	0.002%	0.001% (n = 2)
Taenia sp.	0%	0.001%	0.0005% (n = 1)