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The prevalance of <jats:italic>Ascaris lumbricoides<\/jats:italic> varied from about 76% in one village (Oshiyie, coastal savanna) to apparently 0% in another (Akuma, forest zone). No differences in prevalence for any infection were observed to be sex dependent. Investigation of the relationship between age of the children and prevalance showed that the degree of prevalence of both <jats:italic>A. lumbricoides<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Trichuris trichiura<\/jats:italic> had essentially levelled off by the time the children were 4 years old. There was no evidence to suggest that the prevalence of either <jats:italic>Entamoeba<\/jats:italic> sp. or spp. or hookworm was approaching a maximum value, even in the oldest children. These trends applied across the villages regardless of the differences in prevalence values for the infections. On average, the children of Oshiyie were found to harbour twice as many infections as the children of the other villages. 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