Prevalence of Intestinal Helminthic Infections among Pupils in Kware, Sokoto State

Abstract

Present study was carried out to investigate the prevalence of the intestinal helminthic infection among pupils in Kware, Sokoto. Sarkin Yamma Model Primary School Kware pupils were selected by simple random selection. A total of 250 samples were collected from the pupils and analyzed using wet mount technique; out of which 65 (26.0%) were found positives. Ascaris lumbricoides was significantly found most prevalent 18.0% (45) among the pupil, followed by Schistosoma mansoni 6.0% (15) then Taenia saginata 2.0% (5). Gender specific prevalence showed that, males had higher prevalence rate of 29.2% (40) while female had 25 (18.0%) and significant association was observed (P<0.01). Although significant association was not observed (P>0.01) with respect to age group prevalence rate seen to decreased with increase of the pupils age. Pupils aged ≤ 7 years had a highest prevalence rate of 36.7% (18), followed by those pupils with aged between 8-10 years old 29.7% (19) then 11-13 years old with 17 (21.5%) and those with ≥ 14 years old had the least prevalence of 19.0% (11). It was recommended that, further study should investigate the intensity for the intestinal helminthic infection among the pupils in the study area.