A systematic review and meta-analysis on prevalence and distribution of Taenia and Echinococcus infections in Ethiopia

Table 3 Distribution of data sets by animal final hosts’ taeniasis and CE, Ethiopia

Characteristics	Frequency	Percentage	References
Region
Tigray	2	16.67	[28, 106]
Oromia	3	25	[107,108,109]
Amhara	3	25	[21, 110, 111]
SNNP	2	16.67	[112, 113]
Oromia + Tigray	1	8.33	[114]
Non-specific	1	8.33	[105]
Study animal
Dog	9	75	[21, 28, 106, 107, 110,111,112,113,114]
Wolf	2	16.67	[108, 109]
Hyena	1	8.33	[105]
Sex of study animals
Both	5	41.67	[28, 106, 107, 110, 111]
Unidentified	7	58.33	[21, 105, 108, 109, 112,113,114]
Diagnostic method^a
Parasitological (faeces)	3	23.07	[108, 111, 112]
Parasitological (postmortem)	8	61.54	[21, 28, 106, 107, 110, 111, 113, 114]
Molecular	1	7.69	[105]
Molecular + parasitological	1	7.69	[109]
Parasite type^a
Adult Echinococcus species	6	35.3	[28, 107, 110, 111, 113, 114]
T. hydatigena	2	11.8	[106, 111]
T. ovis	2	11.8	[106, 111]
T. multiceps	1	5.9	[106]
Unidentified Taenia species	6	35.3	[21, 105, 108, 109, 111, 112]

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