Molecular characterization of Cryptosporidium spp. from patients with diarrhoea in Lusaka, Zambia

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Table 1

Age and sex distribution of cryptosporidiosis from 278 cases (n = 19,033) reported at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia from January 2014 to May 2019.

Age group (years)	Positive samples n (% total number in the age group)	Female	Male	Total number of samples
<1	28 (2.4)	13	15	1182
1–4	104 (3.8)	35	69^*	2762
5–9	5 (0.4)	4	1	1303
10–19	19 (1.0)	11	8	1941
20–29	27 (1.0)	21^*	6	2675
30–39	44 (1.5)	26	18	2922
40–49	18^** (0.9)	8	9	2070
50–59	7 (0.7)	4	3	1019
>60	5 (0.5)	1	4	1024
Unknown age	21^** (1.0)	9	8	2135
Total	278	132	141	19,033

Statistical significance between male and female prevalence was observed by Fisher’s exact test (p < 0.05).

^**

Sex information was missing for 4 patients and 1 patient in the “unknown age” and “40–49 year” categories, respectively.

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