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Objective  The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of soil transmitted helminthes among primary school children. School based cross-sectional study design was employed. A total of six hundred study subjects were selected by a multistage sampling method. Fresh stool specimens were collected using clean, dry and wide mouthed labeled stool cups. It was processed by Kato-Katz technique. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 20 and p-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.    Result  The overall prevalence of soil transmitted helminthes was 57 (9.5%).  Hookworm  was the most prevalent helminthes species isolated (4.2%) followed by  A. lumbricoide  (3%). The prevalence of  Taenia  species,  T. trichiura ,  H. nana  and  E. vermicularis  were; 1.2%, 0.5%, 0.7% and 0.8% respectively. The prevalence of the Soil transmitted helminthes infection was low and all cases of Soil transmitted infections in this study were with low infection intensity. This might be due to the preventive chemotherapy given to the school children.    Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-019-4254-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Prevalence, infection intensity and associated factors of soil transmitted helminths among primary school children in Gurage zone, South Central Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study design