Table 1.
Prevalence of parasites among fresh vegetables sold by street vendors in Damascus city.
| Parasites | Fresh Vegetables (16 samples for each) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parsley | Arugula | Radish | Lettuce | Spearmint | Watercress | Tarragon | Coriander | ||
| protozoa | Entamoeba spp. | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Giardia duodenalis | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Blastocystis spp. | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| helminthes | Ascaris lumbricoides | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Strongyloides spp | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hymenolepis nana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Taenia spp. | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total number of contaminated samples (44) (%) | 8 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | |
| 18.2% | 11.4% | 9.1% | 29.5% | 13.6% | 11.4% | 2.3% | 4.5% | ||