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The objective of the work was to determine the prevalence of IPIs among army recruits at a practice and training center in southern Mozambique. Sociodemographic information was obtained through semi-structured interviews. Single urine and stool samples were collected from 362 recruits. Parasite diagnosis was made by filtration, formaldehyde-ether and Kato-Katz techniques. Positive individuals underwent abdominal ultrasound. Then, descriptive statistics and cross-tabulations were performed, and p-values &lt; 0.05 were considered significant. The prevalence of infection with at least one parasite was 25.1% (95% CI: 20.5\u201329.6; n = 91). The most common parasites were Entamoeba coli (10.7%; 95% CI: 7.4\u201313.7; n = 37) and Trichuris trichiura (6.1%; 95% CI: 4.6\u20139.9; n = 25). Parasitic infection was associated with the origin of the participant (p-value &lt; 0.001), and the province of Sofala had the highest prevalence among the provinces studied (70.6%; 95% CI: 47.0\u201387.8; 12\/17). Since oral fecal transmission occurs for several parasites, routine screening and deworming prior to enrollment at the army training center is recommended to reduce transmission of intestinal parasites among recruits.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/pathogens12091105","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,29]],"date-time":"2023-08-29T10:46:00Z","timestamp":1693305960000},"page":"1105","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Regional Differences in Intestinal Parasitic Infections among Army Recruits in a Southern Mozambique Training Center: A Cross-Sectional Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Ver\u00f3nica","family":"Casmo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto Nacional de Sa\u00fade (INS) EN1, Bairro da Vila-Parcela n 3943, Distrito de Marracuene, Maputo C.P. 264, Mozambique"},{"name":"Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute of Cell and Microbiology, Uppsala University, 76124 Uppsala, Sweden"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"S\u00e9rgio","family":"Chicumbe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto Nacional de Sa\u00fade (INS) EN1, Bairro da Vila-Parcela n 3943, Distrito de Marracuene, Maputo C.P. 264, Mozambique"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rosa","family":"Chambisse","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Directorate of Military Health, Maputo C.P. 3216, Mozambique"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rassul","family":"Nal\u00e1","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto Nacional de Sa\u00fade (INS) EN1, Bairro da Vila-Parcela n 3943, Distrito de Marracuene, Maputo C.P. 264, Mozambique"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"28","DOI":"10.1186\/s13071-017-2558-x","article-title":"Prevalence of Cryptosporidium, Microsporidia and Isospora Infection in HIV-Infected People: A Global Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis","volume":"11","author":"Wang","year":"2018","journal-title":"Parasite Vectors"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Kirk, M.D., Pires, S.M., Black, R.E., Caipo, M., Crump, J.A., Devleesschauwer, B., D\u00f6pfer, D., Fazil, A., Fischer-Walker, C.L., and Hald, T. 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