Table 1: Prevalence of intestinal parasites in Belo Horizonte, according to the type of laboratory (n = 6,289).

Parasite	Private laboratory (n = 5,695) n (%)	Public laboratory (n = 594) n (%)	Total n (%)	P-value
Blastocystis hominis	6 (0.1)	0 (0.0)	6 (0.1)	> 0.999*
Endolimax nana	305 (5.4)	21 (3.5)	326 (5.2)	0.071
Escherichia coli	321 (5.6)	56 (9.4)	377 (6.0)	0.000
Entamoeba histolytica/ Entamoeba dispar	23 (0.4)	13 (2.2)	36 (0.6)	0.000*
Giardia lamblia	52 (0.9)	26 (4.4)	78 (1.2)	< 0.000
Iodamoeba bütschlii	13 (0.2)	3 (0.5)	16 (0.3)	0.374*
E. hartmanni	-	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	-
Trichuris trichiura	1 (0.0)	3 (0.5)	4 (0.1)	0.006*
Ascaris lumbricoides	4 (0.1)	12 (2.0)	16 (0.3)	< 0.000*
Strongyloides stercoralis	13 (0.2)	6 (1.0)	19 (0.3)	0.012*
Hookworm	2 (0.0)	1 (0.2)	3 (0.0)	0.514
Cryptosporidium	-	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	-
Taenia	3 (0.1)	1 (0.2)	4 (0.1)	0.655*
Enterobius vermicularis	6 (0.1)	2 (0.3)	8 (0.1)	0.341*
Hymenolepis	1 (0.0)	1 (0.2)	2 (0.0)	0.360*
Schistosoma mansoni	10 (0.2)	3 (0.5)	13 (0.2)	0.235*

*Fisher’s exact test; - = data not available.