Table 3. Parasite prevalence in wet months (>100 mm rainfall) and dry and transient months (≤100 mm rainfall) compared.

Parasite taxa a	Prevalence (% samples)
	Wet months	Dry–transient months
Protozoa
Balantidium coli	6.1%	3.5%
Blastocystis sp.	9.9%	3.5%	*
Entamoeba coli	6.5%	11.2%
Entamoeba sp. or spp.	37.8%	41.2%
Troglocorys cava	12.6%	19.4%
Troglodytella abrassarti	79.0%	80.6%
Nematoda
Hookworm	47.7%	38.8%
Oesophagostomum sp.	55.0%	37.7%	***
Probstmayria gombensis	14.5%	18.2%
Strongyloides sp.	58.0%	57.7%

Chi-square tests for differences in prevalence between wet months (n = 262 faecal samples) and dry–transient months (n = 170):

* P<0.05

*** P<0.001

other comparisons were P>0.05.

^a Only parasites detected in >5% of faecal samples are shown.