Table 2.
Prevalence of Urogenital schistosomiasis by filtration and indirect diagnostic methods.
| Variable | Category | Macrohematuria |
Microhematuria |
Filtration |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive (%) | p-value | Positive (%) | p-value | Positive (%) | P-value | ||
| Overall (n = 389) | 5(1.3) | 37 (9.5) | 27 (6.9) | ||||
| Sex | Male | 2 (1.1) | 1.000* | 20 (11.2) | 0.302 | 16 (8.9) | 0.166 |
| Female | 3 (1.4) | 17 (8.1) | 11 (5.2) | ||||
| Age group (years) | 6–9 | 2 (1.2) | 1.000* | 10 (6.1) | 0.130 | 11 (6.7) | 0.794 |
| 10–12 | 3 (1.8) | 21 (12.4) | 11 (6.5) | ||||
| 13–15 | 0 (0.0) | 6 (10.9) | 5 (9.1) | ||||
| School class | Mbaju | 0 (0.0) | 0.207* | 9 (11.5) | 0.000 | 4 (5.1) | 0.001 |
| Chigugu | 1 (1.3) | 18 (23.1) | 14 (17.9) | ||||
| Mbemba | 1 (1.3) | 4 (5.2) | 2 (2.6) | ||||
| Lukuledi | 0 (0.0) | 2 (2.6) | 4 (5.1) | ||||
| Mkululu | 3 (3.8) | 4 (5.1) | 3 (3.8) | ||||
| I | 1 (1.5) | 0.905* | 4 (6.2) | 0.064 | 5 (7.7) | 0.862* | |
| II | 0 (0.0) | 3 (4.7) | 4 (6.2) | ||||
| III | 1 (1.5) | 4 (6.2) | 3 (4.6) | ||||
| IV | 2 (3.1) | 10 (15.4) | 4 (6.2) | ||||
| V | 0(0.0) | 11 (16.9) | 7 (10.8) | ||||
| VI | 1 (1.5) | 5 (7.7) | 4 (6.2) | ||||