Prevalence, infection intensity and associated factors of soil transmitted helminths among primary school children in Gurage zone, South Central Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study design

Abstract

Objective The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of soil transmitted helminthes among primary school children. School based cross-sectional study design was employed. A total of six hundred study subjects were selected by a multistage sampling method. Fresh stool specimens were collected using clean, dry and wide mouthed labeled stool cups. It was processed by Kato-Katz technique. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 20 and p-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Result The overall prevalence of soil transmitted helminthes was 57 (9.5%). Hookworm was the most prevalent helminthes species isolated (4.2%) followed by A. lumbricoide (3%). The prevalence of Taenia species, T. trichiura , H. nana and E. vermicularis were; 1.2%, 0.5%, 0.7% and 0.8% respectively. The prevalence of the Soil transmitted helminthes infection was low and all cases of Soil transmitted infections in this study were with low infection intensity. This might be due to the preventive chemotherapy given to the school children. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-019-4254-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

New Intestinal Schistosomiasis Transmission Foci and Soil-transmitted Helminths Infection After Five Years of Preventive Chemotherapy and Associated Risk Factors Among School-aged Children in Two Districts in Southern Ethiopia

“…The prevalence of any STH infection in Uba Debretsehay and Dara Mallo districts remain moderate endemic at the end of 2019 indicating elimination of morbidity target is failed in the area and needs continuation of annual deworming of SAC. The nding of this study was in agreement with Chuahit district [27] in Northern Ethiopia while it was higher than ndings of similar studies undertaken in Jima town [17] and Gurage Zone [16] in Ethiopia. In contrast to this, the prevalence of STH infection among SAC in the study area was lower than Hawassa town [18] and west Shewa Zone [22] in Ethiopia.…”

“…Studies assessing the prevalence of STH and SCH infection revealed that it varied both spatially and temporally. Recent studies conducted in Ethiopia indicated that the prevalence of STH infection with different diagnostic technique ranged from 9.5% in Gurage Zone in South-central Ethiopia [16] to 52.4% in southwestern Ethiopia [17]. In Hawassa town, capital of SNNPR, the prevalence of any kind of intestinal parasitic infection was 42.4% [18].…”

“…Articles reviewed originating from other African countries indicated that the prevalence of STH infections ranged from 1% in a study conducted after two months of MDA in Cameroon [19] to 40.0% in Kenya [20]. The highest prevalence (57.2%) was seen in the Agricultural area in Indonesia [12] while it was 27.9% Myanmar in Asia [16,21].…”

Prevalence of soil-transmitted helminthiases among pre-school age children (12-59 months) and WASH condition in Mkuranga, Tanzania: a cross-sectional study

“…All cases of STH infection were of low intensities, similar to ndings of study conducted in Gurage zone, Ethiopia (21). Low intensity infections is expected in areas with less than 20% prevalence of STH (3).…”

“…The sample size, 525 PSAC was determined using the formula for single population proportion (21) and considering 30% Prevalence of STH in the population (22), normal deviate of 1.96, 95% Con dence interval, 5% Margin of error, 10% non-response rate and design effect of 1.5.…”