Table 1.
Primer and DNA amplification conditions.
Fig 1.
Population of study by parasite infection.
Baseline characteristics of young adults by parasite infection status are shown (n = 139). GI: gastrointestinal.
Table 2.
Sociodemographic characteristics of young adults and parasitism associated factors.
Table 3.
Prevalence of intestinal parasites by microscopy and molecular methods.
Fig 2.
Parasite detection by microscopy methods and PCR.
Prevalence of intestinal parasites according to each microscopy method and PCR. None of the cases considered as Entamoeba complex was positive for E. histolytica by PCR. Other commensals included: E. hartmanni, I. bütschlii and C. mesnili. Overall prevalence by method is shown in the inset.
Fig 3.
Microscopy and PCR concordance for Blastocystis spp.
Agreement analysis is shown in overlapping circles. Positive agreement between any microscopy test and PCR is indicated by the asterisk.
Fig 4.
Parasite combinations distributed as: double infections (solid bars), triple infections (striped bars), quadruple infections (unfilled bar) and quintuple infections (squared bars) are shown. Entamoeba Cx: Entamoeba complex (i.e E. dispar/E. moshkovskii as E. histolytica was not detected in this work). Frequency of coinfections is shown in the inset.
Table 4.
Intestinal parasites in domestic dogs and cats.
Table 5.
Positive pets and parasitic status of their owners.
Table 6.
Prevalence of intestinal parasites in several published studies and the present work.