Table 2. Parasitic carriage of children included in the case-control study in Moramanga and Morondava.
| Intestinal parasites | Moramanga (n = 894) N (%) |
Morondava (n = 932) N (%) |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ascaris lumbricoides | 145 (16.2) | 11 (1.2) | ** |
| Trichuris trichiura | 34 (3.8) | 2 (0.2) | ** |
| Giardia intestinalis | 14 (1.6) | 12 (1.3) | NS |
| Hymenolepis nana | 2 (0.2) | 38 (4.1) | ** |
| Other amoebae | 47 (5.2) | 100 (10.7) | * |
| Other helminths | 3 (0.3) | 3 (0.3) | NS |
| Cryptosporidies | 15 (1.7) | 9 (0.9) | NS |
| Cyclospora spp. | 10 (1.1) | 1 (0.2) | * |
| Isospora spp. | - | 1 (0.2) | NS |
*: significant;
**: p<10−3; statistical tests were conducted with complete data; NS: not significant