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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of included school-aged children on Pemba Island in mid-2011 with regard to intestinal protozoa infection

From: Prevalence of intestinal protozoa infection among school-aged children on Pemba Island, Tanzania, and effect of single-dose albendazole, nitazoxanide and albendazole-nitazoxanide

Characteristic, intestinal protozoa

N (prevalence in %)

Girls (%)/boys (%)

Wawi (%)/Al-Sadik school (%)

 

low (%)/moderate (%)/heavy (%)

  

No. of children tested

550

271/279

404/146

G. intestinalis

90 (16.4)

37 (13.7)/53 (19.0)

59 (14.6)/31 (21.1)

40 (44.4)/35 (38.9)/15 (16.7)

E. histolytica/E. dispar

99 (18.0)

53 (19.6)/46 (16.5)

77 (19.1)/22 (15.1)

57 (57.6)/33 (33.3)/9 (9.1)

B. hominis

154 (28.0)

73 (26.9)/81 (29.0)

103 (34.9)/51 (25.5)

125 (81.2)/25 (16.2)/4 (2.6)

E. coli

283 (51.5)

151 (55.7)/132 (47.3)

210 (52.0)/73 (50.0)

 

101 (35.7)/104 (36.7)/78 (27.6)

  

E. nana

107 (19.5)

58 (21.4)/49 (17.6)

71 (17.6)/36 (24.7)

 

62 (57.9)/40 (37.4)/5 (4.7)

  

E. hartmanni

73 (13.3)

38 (14.0)/35 (12.0)

52 (12.9)/21 (14.4)

 

57 (78.1)/14 (19.2)/2 (2.7)

  

C. mesnili

45 (8.2)

27 (6.5)/18 (10.0)

31 (7.7)/14 (9.6)

 

21 (46.7)/18 (40.0)/6 (13.3)

  

I. bütschlii

37 (6.7)

18 (6.6)/19 (6.8)

22 (5.4)/15 (10.3)

 

31 (83.8)/5 (13.5)/1 (2.7)

  

G. intestinalis or E. histolytica/E. dispar or B. hominis

268 (48.7)

135 (49.8)/133 (47.8)

187 (46.3)/81 (55.5)

Any intestinal protozoa

411 (74.4)

219 (80.8)/192 (68.8)

297 (73.5)/114 (78.1)