Table 6.
Occurrence of Giardia duodenalis assemblages A and B according to sociodemographic (age, gender) and clinical (stool consistency, symptoms) variables of the 30 PCR-positive patients, Ankara, Turkey, 2018‒2019
| Assemblage | Clinical manifestations | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Cases (n) | A | B | A + B | Abdominal pain | Bloating | Diarrhoea | Nausea | Constipation | Weigh lose | None |
| Age (years) | |||||||||||
| 0‒5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 6‒12 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 13‒25 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| >25 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Gender | |||||||||||
| Male | 16 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| Female | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Stool consistency | |||||||||||
| Watery | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Loose | 15 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Formed | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |