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Table 1
Prevalence of helminths in males and females among villagers. A and B are single and mixed infection cases, respectively.
| Sex | No. faeces examined | Helminthic infection rate | Single infection rate | Single infection (A) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al | Tt | Hw | Tae | MIF | |||||||||
| Male | 395 | 177 (44.8%) | 157 (39.7%) | 58 (14.7%) | 39 (9.9%) | 35 (8.9%) | 20 (5.1%) | 5 (1.3%) | |||||
| Female | 588 | 243 (41.3%) | 210 (35.7%) | 131 (22.3%) | 23 (3.9%) | 36 (6.1%) | 8 (1.4%) | 12 (2.0%) | |||||
| Total | 983 | 420 (42.7%) | 367 (37.3%) | 189 (19.2%) | 62 (6.3%) | 71 (7.2%) | 28 (2.8%) | 17 (1.7%) | |||||
| Sex | No. of faeces examined | Mixed infections | Type of mixed infection (B) | ||||||||||
| Al-Tt | Al-Hw | Tae-Al | Tt-Hw | Tae-Hw | Tt-MIF | Tae-MIF | Tae-Al-Tt | Al-Tt-Hw | Tt-Hw-MIF | Tae-Tt-Hw | |||
| Male | 395 | 20 (5.1%) | 7 (1.8%) | 3 (0.8%) | 0 | 4 (1.0%) | 2 (0.5%) | 0 | 1 (0.3%) | 0 | 4 (1.0%) | 0 | 0 |
| Female | 588 | 33 (5.6%) | 9 (1.5%) | 8 (1.3%) | 3 (0.5%) | 3 (0.5%) | 0 | 2 (0.3%) | 0 | 1 (0.2%) | 3 (0.5%) | 2 (0.3%) | 1 (0.2%) |
| Total | 983 | 53 (5.4%) | 16 (1.6%) | 11 (1.1%) | 3 (0.3%) | 7 (0.7%) | 2 (0.2%) | 2 (0.2%) | 1 (0.1%) | 1 (0.1%) | 7 (0.7%) | 2 (0.2%) | 1 (0.1%) |
Al: Ascaris lumbricoides; Tt: Trichuris trichiura; Hw: hookworm; Tae: Taenia spp.; MIF: minute intestinal flukes.
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