Fig. 1.

Temporal effects on the prevalence of helminths. a Temporal changes in prevalence of each of the four species and their combined data detected across the decade. The number of subjects included in each of the years between 2005 and 2014 inclusive, was as follows: 2559; 2120; 2220; 2309; 3038; 2860; 2945; 3604; 3728; and 3902, respectively; b Temporal changes in prevalence of combined helminths among subjects from the five Asian countries subset. The number of subjects in these five countries was as follows: Nepal, n = 1429; Bangladesh, n = 945; Sri Lanka, n = 534; India, n = 3571; and Pakistan, n = 2087