Relaciones entre las prevalencias de las geohelmintiasis humanas en Venezuela / Relationship between prevalences of geohelminthic infections in human, Venezuela

By means of Kato-Katz technique 113,254 coprological samples of the human population belonging to 100 counties from Venezuela were analyzed. It was determined the following prevalences: ascaris lumbricoides 26,8 percent, trichuris trichiura 32,7 percent and hookworm 5,6 percent. It was found a strong correlation between a. lumbricoides and t. trichiura infection (p<0,001), a significant correlation between t. trichiura and hookworn (p<0,5) and no correlation between a. lumbricoides and hookworm