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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 9.
Published in final edited form as: East Afr Med J. 1997 May;74(5):294–298.

Table 3.

Prevalence of parasitic infections by sex, age and rural or urban location

Boys
n=1851		 Girls
n=1720		 Age < 10
n=1565		 Age >= 10
n=1872		 Rural
n=2905		 Urban
n=700		 All
n=3578
A. lumbricoides
any infection
moderate +heavy infection*
73.4
21.9
70.4
18.6
74.4
23.1
70.0 **
18.0 ***
72.0
20.3
T. trichiura
any infection
moderate + heavy infection*
95.9
42.5
96.1
39.6
96.4
43.2
95.7
39.3†
96.0
41.1
Hookworm
any infection
moderate + heavy infection*
94.7
21.1
92.7*
16.8**
93.4
18.4
94.1
19.4
94.2
21.8
91.8*
  7.4***
93.7
19.0
Malaria
any parasitemia
>1,000 parasites/μl
60.6
 13.8
60.7
13.4
 45.7
15.8
54.3
11.7 ***
62.4
13.8
91.8*
  7.4*
60.6
13.6
29.0
Total hematuria
Visual haematuria
Microhaematuria # 		32.6
  4.8
28.4		 28.1**
  2.2***
26.3		   3.5
26.8

 31.6
  3.5
 28.5
  3.8
31.3
  2.2*
16.0*** 		30.5
  3.5
27.0
***

p< 0.001

**

p< 0.01

*

p< 0.05

*

defined as in Table 2

#

+ and ++ categories combined