Research Article
Enteroparasitism in Hard-to-Reach Community Dwellers: A Cross-Sectional Study in Ga West Municipality in Ghana
Table 3
Prevalence of single and coparasitism in study participants.
| | Parasite | Number of participants | % |
| | Monoparasitism | 121 | 22.5 | | Giardia lamblia | 12 | 2.2 | | Entamoeba histolytica | 25 | 4.6 | | Balantidium coli | 5 | 0.9 | | Ascaris lumbricoides | 6 | 1.1 | | Schistosoma mansoni | 47 | 8.7 | | Hookworm | 6 | 1.1 | | Strongyloides stercoralis | 20 | 3.7 | | Dual parasitism | 56 | 10.4 | | G. lamblia+E. histolytica | 9 | 1.7 | | B. coli+E. histolytica | 4 | 0.7 | | A. lumbricoides+hookworm | 13 | 2.4 | | S. stercoralis+G. lamblia | 5 | 0.9 | | A. lumbricoides+S. mansoni | 18 | 3.3 | | S. mansoni+hookworm | 7 | 1.3 | | Triple parasitism | 1 | 0.18 | | G. lamblia+E. histolytica+S. stercoralis | | |
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