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 (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.