Table 2 The prevalence of intestinal helminthic infections in Shantytown, apartment and rural schoolchildren

Any infection

77.1

53.2

53.1

<0.001*

Double helminth infections

17.4

5.8

6.02

<0.001*

Triple helminth infections

1.1

0.1

0

0.05**

Ascaris lumbricoides

63.2

45.3

41.4

<0.001*

Trichuris trichiura

16.8

5.2

5.31

<0.001*

Hymenolepis nana

9.7

4.0

7.44

<0.001*

Taenia species

6.9

4.7

1.77

<0.001*