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Table 2.

Association between specific types of intestinal parasitosis and anemia among pregnant women from Wondo Genet district, Southern Ethiopia, 2018

Type of helminth infection	Anemia		Prevalence of anemia (%)	Statistical test (p-value)^×
Type of helminth infection	Yes	No	Prevalence of anemia (%)	Statistical test (p-value)^×
Any helminth infection
Yes	75	60	55.6	< 0.001^*
No	35	179	16.4	< 0.001^*
Hookworm
Yes	36	3	92.3	< 0.001^*
No	74	236	23.9	< 0.001^*
Giardia lamblia
Yes	15	4	78.9	< 0.001^*
No	95	235	28.8	< 0.001^*
Schistosoma mansoni
Yes	6	2	75.0	0.007^*
No	104	237	30.5	0.007^*
Ascaris lumbricoides
Yes	35	52	40.2	0.043^*
No	75	187	28.6	0.043^*
Entamoeba histolytica
Yes	6	6	50.0	0.205
No	104	233	30.9	0.205
Trichuris trichiura
Yes	5	5	50.0	0.298
No	105	234	31.0	0.298

× Chi-square test for the first 5 variables and fisher exact test for the last 2 variables

* Statistically significant difference at p-value of 0.05