Table 1. Prevalence of S. mansoni and intestinal parasitic infections determined by the spontaneous sedimentation and Kato-Katz methods.
| Infeccion by | Number (%) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spontaneous Sedimentation | Kato—Katz | Combined results* | |||||
| method (n = 232) | method (n = 232) | Men (n = 89) | Women (n = 65) | boths sexes (n = 232) | 95.0% C.I.# for OR | ||
| S. mansoni | 31 (13.4) | 7 (3.1) | 22 (24.7) | 16 (24.6) | 38 (16.4) | 0.12–0.22 | |
| A. lumbricoides | 30 (12.9) | 34 (14.6) | 40 (44.9) | 24 (36.9) | 64 (27.6) | 0.22–0.24 | |
| T. trichiura | 10 (4.3) | 11 (4.7) | 13 (14.6) | 8 (13.3) | 21 (9.1) | 0.06–0.13 | |
| Hookworm | 10 (4.3) | 0 (0) | 7 (7.8) | 3 (4.6) | 10 (4.3) | 0.02–0.08 | |
| E. vermicularis | 2 (0.8) | 4 (1.7) | 3 (3.4) | 3 (4.6) | 6 (2.6) | 0.01–0.06 | |
| H. nana | 2 (0.8) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 2 (3.1) | 2 (0.8) | 0.00–0.03 | |
| E. coli | 10 (4.3) | - | 3 (3.4) | 7 (10.7) | 10 (4.3) | 0.02–0.08 | |
| E. histolytica/dispar | 1 (0.4) | - | 1 (1.2) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.4) | 0.00–0.02 | |
| G. lamblia | 2 (0.8) | - | 0 (0) | 2 (3.1) | 2 (0.8) | 0.00–0.03 | |
*Combined result indicates any people that was positive either by Spontaneus Sedimentation or Kato-Katz.
#Confidence Intervals 95.0% (C.I.95%).