Table 1. Prevalence and assemblage frequencies of Giardia duodenalis in children attending rural schools in the Bahir Dar district, Amhara Region, Ethiopia, 2013.
| School | Children | Assemblageb | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total (n) | Sampled (n) | Giardia-positive (n)a | % | Isolates typed (n) | A (%) | B (%) | |
| Achadir | 273 | 49 | 19 | 38.8 | 9 | 0 (0.0) | 9 (100) |
| Gedro | 413 | 48 | 22 | 45.8 | 9 | 1 (11.1) | 8 (88.9) |
| Meshenti | 744 | 49 | 24 | 49.0 | 11 | 0 (0.0) | 11 (100) |
| Sebatamit | 448 | 50 | 35 | 70.0 | 8 | 3 (37.5) | 5 (62.5) |
| Tisabay 1–4 | 555 | 50 | 33 | 66.0 | 8 | 1 (12.5) | 7 (87.5) |
| Tisabay 1–8 | 1064 | 48 | 24 | 50.0 | 11 | 1 (9.1) | 10 (90.9) |
| Yiganda | 102 | 49 | 26 | 53.1 | 7 | 4 (57.1) | 3 (42.9) |
| Zenzelema | 940 | 50 | 33 | 66.0 | 15 | 4 (26.7) | 11 (73.3) |
| Total | 4,539 | 393 | 216 | 55.0 | 78 | 14 (17.9) | 64 (82.1) |
aSamples positive by real-time PCR.
bNumber and frequency of G. duodenalis sub-assemblages characterized at the GDH and/or BG loci.