Table 4.

Prevalence of selected parasitic infections in clinic patients

VARIABLESTRONGYLOIDESSCHISTOSOMIASIS*STOOL PARASITES
NO. OF POSITIVE RESULTS (NO. OF AVAILABLE RESULTS)PREVALENCE, %P VALUENO. OF POSITIVE RESULTS (NO. OF AVAILABLE RESULTS)PREVALENCE, %P VALUENO. OF POSITIVE RESULTS (NO. OF AVAILABLE RESULTS)PREVALENCE, %P VALUE
Total23 (792)342 (278)1563 (391)16
Sex.67.12.07
  • Male11 (337)320 (102)2033 (162)20
  • Female12 (455)322 (176)1230 (229)13
Age group, y.45.024.21
  • 0–144 (131)32 (47)415 (70)21
  • ≥ 1519 (661)340 (231)1748 (321)15
Region6.003NA.24
  • Africa18 (293)642 (278)1529 (219)13
  • Americas†1 (62)2NANA5 (32)16
  • Asia‡1 (115)< 1NANA16 (65)25
  • Eastern Mediterranean1 (124)< 1NANA11 (57)19
• Europe2 (198)1NANA2 (18)11

  • NA—not applicable.

  • ↵* Testing limited to patients from the African Region only.

  • ↵† Excludes patients born in Canada and the United States.

  • ↵‡ Asia region includes World Health Organization6 regions of South-East Asia and the Western Pacific.