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Table 3 Prevalence % (CL95) of the most common taxa among subjects from western Asia

From: Assessing the burden of intestinal parasites affecting newly arrived immigrants in Qatar

Ā 

n

Helminths combined

A. lumbricoides

Hookworms

Protozoa combined

G. duodenalis

Bangladesh

192

14.1 (8.51ā€“22.22)

4.7 (1.86ā€“10.69)

5.7 (2.53ā€“11.92)

11.5 (6.43ā€“19.12)

3.1 (0.94ā€“8.39)

India

433

5.3 (3.07ā€“8.95)

0.5 (0.11ā€“2.42)

3.7 (1.85ā€“6.94)

15.7 (11.53ā€“20.90)

4.4 (2.35ā€“7.80)

Nepal

373

6.2 (3.86ā€“9.65)

1.1 (0.31ā€“3.20]

4.3 (2.40ā€“7.35)

13.7 (10.05ā€“18.23)

4.0 (2.19ā€“7.02)

Sri Lanka

286

6.6 (4.47ā€“9.70)

1.0 (0.37ā€“2.79]

5.6 (3.64ā€“8.47)

8.0 (5.65ā€“11.37)

2.1 (1.03ā€“4.20)

  1. Pakistan has been excluded because the study group only included 5 subjects from Pakistan