Table 3: Distribution of intestinal parasites other than Taenia species in stool of participants.
Parasite eggs | Epileptics | Non Epileptics | Total | x2 | P-value |
Ascaris lumbricoides | 23 (17.0%) | 21 (12.9%) | 44 (14.77%) | 1.012 | 0.329 |
Hookworm | 9 (6.7%) | 7 (4.3%) | 16 (5.37%) | 0.818 | 0.442 |
Entamoeba coli | 7 (5.2%) | 9 (5.5%) | 16 (5.37%) | 0.016 | 1.000 |
Entamoeba histolytica | 8 (5.9%) | 13 (8.0%) | 21 (7.05%) | 0.474 | 0.650 |
Trichuris trichiura | 2 (1.5%) | 1 (0.6%) | 3 (1.01%) | 0.558 | 0.592 |
Hymenolepis diminuta | 3 (2.2%) | 0 (0.0%) | 3 (1.01%) | 3.659 | 0.092 |
Schistosoma species | 2 (1.5%) | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (0.67%) | 2.431 | 0.204 |
Trichomonas species | 1 (0.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (0.34%) | 1.211 | 0.453 |
Entamoeba intestinalis | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (0.6%) | 1 (0.34%) | 0.831 | 1.000 |
Yeast cells | 19 (14.1%) | 9 (5.5%) | 28 (9.4%) | 6.345 | 0.016 |