Intestinal Parasitic Infections among Intellectually Disabled Individuals in Bandar Abbas County, Southern Iran

Table 1

Detected parasites among intellectually disabled individuals in Bandar Abbas County, Southern Iran, by different detection methods.

Intestinal parasite	Wet mount technique	Formalin-ethyl-acetate concentration	Trichrome and modified acid-fast staining	Total (%)
Blastocystis hominis	12	13	13	13 (10.1)
Entamoeba coli	11	12	12	12 (10.1)
Giardia lambelia	4	5	5	5 (4.2)
Cryptosporidium	0	0	2	2 (1.7)
Iodamoeba butschlii	2	2	2	2 (1.7)
Endolimax nana	0	1	1	1 (0.8)