High rate of intestinal parasites among a closed community of Zay populations residing on three islands of Lake Ziway, Ethiopia.

Chi-square analysis revealed no statistically significant association between intestinal parasites positivity and the studied socio-demographic characteristics except for lake water usage (P<0.05) and age which showed marginal significance (P = 0.09), as shown in Table 1 .

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Though in recent years, a decreasing trend in intestinal parasitosis has been documented in Ethiopia, as far as our knowledge goes there is no published study on the magnitude as well as determinants of intestinal parasites including schistosomiasis in areas which are not easily accessible like islands.

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