Soil-transmitted helminths and schistosome infections in Ethiopia: a systematic review of progress in their control over the past 20 years

Table 1 Breakdown of the selected 231 papers. The number of papers reporting the diagnostic, treatment, study population and epidemiological parameters are shown for each parasite species

Study element		AL	TT	HW	SS	SM	SH
Parasite studied^a (n = 267)		24% (n = 213)	22% (n = 194)	21% (n = 197)	9% (n = 78)	22% (n = 198)	2% (n = 21)
Diagnostic	KK and/or FECT	107	101	95	24	125	15
	Other^b	70	59	68	35	45	5
	Multiple^b	21	19	19	9	13	0
	Unspecified	15	15	15	10	15	1
Treatment	PZQ/ALB/MBZ	46	44	38	8	59	7
	Not specified	117	106	112	48	97	14
	Not mentioned	50	44	47	22	42	0
Study population	Pre-SAC	19	16	15	3	9	0
	SAC	128	118	120	37	120	18
	Community	66	60	62	38	69	3
Epidemiological parameter	Prevalence	213	194	197	78	198	21
Epidemiological parameter	Intensity	46	44	41	–	70	–

AL Ascaris lumbricoides, TT Trichuris trichiura, HW hookworm, SS Strongyloides stercoralis, SM Schistosoma mansoni, SH Schistosoma haematobium, KK Kato–Katz, FECT formal ether concentration technique, PZQ praziquantel, ALB albendazole, MBZ mebendazole, Pre-SAC pre-school-aged children
^aPercentage of papers that studied each parasite out of the 267 datasets
^bIncludes direct microscopy, McMaster, molecular techniques [polymerase chain reaction (PCR), quantitative PCR], FLOTAC and Mini-FLOTAC techniques, centrifugation, sedimentation and urine diagnostics

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