Fig 1.
Localization of the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
Table 1.
Main characteristics of municipalities of the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro state.
Table 2.
Prevalence of intestinal parasites along the years of the survey.
Table 3.
Characteristics of positive and negative participants to intestinal parasites.
Table 4.
Number of intestinal protozoa and helminths species: Monoparasitism and polyparasitism.
Table 5.
Associations of intestinal parasites with the gender.
Table 6.
Number of positive and negative participants to intestinal parasites by regions.
Table 7.
Distribution of intestinal parasites species by the municipalities of Rio de Janeiro state.
Fig 2.
Geographical distribution and gaussian kernel density surface map of participants with and without intestinal parasites.
Incidence density in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro State.
Fig 3.
Geographical distribution of participants with and without intestinal parasitic infections and the Material Deprivation Index (MDIs).
(A) Metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro; (B) Itaguaí, Japeri, Queimados, Nova Iguaçu, Paracambi and Seropédica municipalities; (C) Rio de Janeiro municipality; (D) Belford Roxo, Mesquita, Nilópolis and São João de Meriti municipalities; (E) Duque de Caxias municipality; (F) Cachoeira de Macacu, Guapimirim, Itaboraí, Magé, Maricá, Niterói, Rio Bonito, São Gonçalo and Tanguá municipalities (green (q1): lower material deprivation; red (q5): higher material deprivation).
Table 8.
Number of positive and negative participants to intestinal parasites per quintile of deprivation.
Table 9.
Number of positive and negative participants to intestinal parasites according to their distance over the slums in Rio de Janeiro municipality.
Fig 4.
Geographical distribution of participants with and without intestinal parasitic infections and their distance over the slums in Rio de Janeiro municipality.