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Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette

Table 2 Prevalence of individual STHs among children aged 0–2 years from selected rural and urban communities

From: Prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infection among children under 2 years from urban and rural settings in Ogun state, Nigeria: implication for control strategy

Community

No. examined

Parasites

N (%)

A. Lumbricoides

T. trichuria

Hook worm

Urban

50 (48.5)

28 (56.0)*

8 (16.0)

19 (38.0)*

Rural

53 (51.5)

42 (79.2)

11 (20.8)

32 (60.4)

Total

103 (100.0)

70 (68.0%)

19 (18.5)

51 (49.5)

  1. Values asterisk (*) connotes significant difference in a column
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