Table 2 Overall parasite infection according to sex of the studied populations
Patient groups | Males | Females | Total | Males | Females | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. | Parasite + | (%) | No. | Parasite + | (%) | No. | Parasite + | (%) | No. | Parasite + | (%) | No. | Parasite + | (%) | No. | Parasite + | (%) | |
HIV + patients | 241 | 82 | 34 | 259 | 93 | 35.9 | 500 | 175 | 35 | 241 | 2 | 0.8 | 259 | 3 | 1.1 | 500 | 5 | 1 |
HIV - patients | 140 | 5 | 3.6 | 160 | 8 | 5 | 300 | 13 | 4.3 | 140 | 1 | 0.7 | 160 | 1 | 0.6 | 300 | 2 | 0.7 |
Total | 381 | 87 | 22.8 | 419 | 101 | 24.1 | 800 | 188 | 23.5 | 381 | 3 | 0.8 | 419 | 4 | 0.9 | 800 | 7 | 0.9 |