Table 1.
The prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections in La-Ngu District, Satun Province.
| Parasite | Study site | Total (%) (n = 204) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La-Ngu (n = 52) No. (%) |
Paknam (n = 50) No. (%) |
Bannaimuang (n = 64) No. (%) |
Namphud (n = 38) No. (%) |
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| Protozoa | |||||
| Blastocystis spp. | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.5) | 2 (1.0) | 1 (0.5) | 4 (2.0) |
| Blastocystis spp. and Entamoeba histolytica-like | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.5) |
| Giardia duodenalis and Blastocystis spp. | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.5) |
| Helminth | |||||
| Enterobius vermicularis | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.5) |
| Hookworm | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.5) | 2 (1.0) | 1 (0.5) | 4 (2.0) |
| Strongyloides stercoralis | 2 (1.0) | 8 (4.0) | 3 (1.5) | 0 (0.0) | 13 (6.5) |
| Hookworm and Strongyloides stercoralis | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1(0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.5) |
| Total | 2 (3.9) | 12 (24.0) | 9 (14.1) | 2 (5.3) | 25 (12.3) |