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Stool samples of children aged 2\u201314 years and their mothers were analyzed through direct smear analysis, Kato\u2013Katz, spontaneous sedimentation in tube, Baermann\u2019s method, and agar plate culture. A questionnaire was administered to collect epidemiological information of interest. Among 124 children, 25.8% had one or more STH. Individual prevalence rates were as follows: <jats:italic>Ascaris lumbricoides<\/jats:italic>, 16.1%; <jats:italic>Strongyloides stercoralis<\/jats:italic>, 10.5%; hookworm, 1.6%; and <jats:italic>Trichuris trichiura<\/jats:italic>, (1.6%). The prevalence of common STH (<jats:italic>A. lumbricoides<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>T. trichiura<\/jats:italic>, and hookworm) was higher among children aged 2\u20135 years than older children (31.6% versus 12.8%; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.01). In terms of sanitation deficits, walking barefoot was significantly associated with STH infection (OR = 3.28; CI 95% = 1.11\u201312.07). Furthermore, STH-infected children more frequently had a mother who was concomitantly infected by STH than the non-STH\u2013infected counterpart (36.4% versus 14.1%, <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.02). In conclusion, STH infection is highly prevalent in children from this Amazonian community despite routine deworming. Institutional health policies may include hygiene and sanitation improvements and screening\/deworming of mothers to limit the dissemination of STH. Further studies are needed to address the social and epidemiological mechanics perpetuating these infections.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.18-1011","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,16]],"date-time":"2019-07-16T07:01:05Z","timestamp":1563260465000},"page":"636-640","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis in Children from a Rural Community Taking Part in a Periodic Deworming Program in the Peruvian Amazon"],"prefix":"10.4269","volume":"101","author":[{"given":"Renato A.","family":"Errea","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de Medicina Tropical \u201cAlexander von Humboldt,\u201d Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru;"},{"name":"Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"George","family":"Vasquez-Rios","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de 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