Table 1.
Age-sex distribution of the intestinal parasitic infection and polyparasitism among the study participants
| Variables | Positives | Frequency of infection with different species of parasites and polyparasitism | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nematodes | Cestodes | Protozoa | Trematodes | PP | ||||||||
| HW | AL | TT | SS | EV | TS | HN | EH | GL | SM | |||
| Gender | ||||||||||||
| Male | 266 | 227 | 46 | 28 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 66 |
| Female | 266 | 223 | 59 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 61 |
| Total | 532 (52.1%) | 450 (44.1%) | 105 (10.3%) | 45 (4.4%) | 12 (1.2%) | 11 (1.1%) | 14 (1.4%) | 21 (2.1%) | 7 (0.7%) | 1 (0.1%) | 6 (0.6%) | 127 (12.4%) |
| p-value | 0.624 | 0.869 | 0.134 | 0.115 | 0.596 | 0.823 | 0.956 | 0.773 | - | - | - | 0.766 |
| Age groups (years) | ||||||||||||
| ≤ 15 | 271 | 224 | 65 | 30 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 76 |
| > 15 | 261 | 226 | 40 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 51 |
| Total | 532 (52.1%) | 450 (44.1%) | 105 (10.3%) | 45 (4.4%) | 12 (1.2%) | 11 (1.1%) | 14 (1.4%) | 21 (2.1%) | 7 (0.7%) | 1 (0.1%) | 6 (0.6) | 127 (12.4%) |
| p-value | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.179 | 0.131 | 0.443 | 0.274 | 0.129 | 0.308 | - | - | - | 0.319 |
Key: HW Hookworm, AL Ascaris lumbricoides, TT Trichuris trichiura, SS Strongyloides stercoralis, EV Enterobius vermicularis, TS Taenia spp, HN Hymenolepis nana, EH Entamoeba histolytica, GL Giardia lamblia, SM Schistosoma mansoni, PP Polyparasitism