Significant associations between parasitic infections and household assets, hygiene, and defecation behavior.

The study was carried out among 431 households in the Taabo health demographic surveillance system in south-central Côte d’Ivoire in July 2011. Logistic regression analysis was used with village level exchangeable random effects. Variables included as potential confounders were age groups (<5, 5–14, 15–24, 25–40, and >40 years), wealth quintiles and sex whenever age, sex, and socioeconomic status were significantly associated with a given parasitic infection.
No significant associations for E. histolytica/E. dispar and G. intestinalis with household assets, hygiene, and defecation behavior have been found after correction for potential confounders (sex, age group, or wealth quintile).
aP-value based on Wald test.