Table 3 Prevalence of malaria and intestinal helminth co-infections among malaria suspected febrile patients who attended Dore Bafeno Health Center, southern Ethiopia, December 2010
From: Malaria and related outcomes in patients with intestinal helminths: a cross-sectional study
Helminth infection | Number of cases | P. falciparumpositive n (%) | P. vivaxpositive n (%) | P. falciparumandP. vivaxn (%) | Total malaria positive n (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Only A. lumbricoides (Al) | 141 | 30 (21.3) | 20 (14.2) | 2 (1.4) | 52 (36.9) |
Only hookworm (Hw) | 25 | 1(4.0) | 6 (24.0) | 0 | 7 (28.0) |
Only T. trichiura (Tt) | 39 | 9 (23.1) | 6 (15.4) | 0 | 15 (38.5) |
Only S. mansoni (Sm) | 39 | 9 (23.1) | 3 (7.7) | 0 | 15 (38.5) |
Al and Tt | 42 | 9 (31.0) | 11 (35.5) | 2 (4.5) | 22 (52.4) |
Al and Sm | 18 | 4 (22.2) | 1 (5.6) | 0 | 5 (27.8) |
Al, Tt and Sm | 5 | 1 (20.0) | 1 (20.0) | 0 | 2 (40.0) |
Al, Tt, Sm and Hw | 22 | 7 (31.8) | 1 (4.5) | 0 | 8 (36.4) |
Any intestinal helminth | 378 | 80 (21.2) | 51(13.5) | 5 (1.3) | 136 (36.0) |
Without intestinal helminths | 324 | 30 (9.3) | 50 (15.4) | 6 (1.9) | 86 (26.5) |