Table. Rates of helminth egg infection, by species, among 2,057 persons in 3 districts of Yangon, Myanmar.
| District | No. persons examined | No. (%) positive |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascaris lumbricoides | Trichuris trichiura | Enterobius vermicularis | Opisthorchis viverrini | Other* | Total | ||
| Hlaing-Thayar | 682 | 17 (2.5) | 90 (13.2) | 2 (0.3) | 2 (0.3) | 2 (0.3) | 113 (16.6) |
| South Dagon | 672 | 83 (13.2) | 90 (14.4) | 11 (1.8) | 8 (1.3) | 4 (0.6) | 196 (31.3) |
| North Dagon |
748 |
66 (8.8) |
94 (12.6) |
6 (0.8) |
4 (0.5) |
5 (0.7) |
175 (23.4) |
| Total | 2,057 | 166 (8.1) | 274 (13.3) | 19 (0.9) | 14 (0.7) | 11 (0.5) | 484 (23.5) |
*Includes 2 cases of hookworm infection and 1 case each of Taenia sp. and Trichostrongylus sp. infection.