Malaria Parasitemia in Febrile Patients Mono- and Coinfected with Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis Attending Sanja Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia.

Infections with STHs, especially hookworm, were positively associated with Plasmodium parasite density. The current study finding also revealed that increased worm burden of hookworm as expressed by egg intensity had significantly increased Plasmodium parasite density.Plasmodium parasite density was significantly higher in malaria-STHs-coinfected patients than in patients infected with only Plasmodium parasite density was significantly higher in malaria-STHs-coinfected patients than in patients infected with only.