Table 2.

Comparison of clinical, sociodemographic, and environmental parameters in children with single and multiple infections with Cryptosporidium, southern India

Variable	Single infection (n = 12)	Multiple infections (n = 8)	P
Male sex	4	4	0.648*
Low socioeconomic status	7	4	1.000*
No formal education for head of family	3	3	0.642*
No formal education for mother	4	2	1.000*
Mean (SD) maternal age at birth (years)	22.75 (4.33)	24.88 (2.42)	0.225†
Mean (SD) family size	6.08 (1.62)	6.25 (1.28)	0.810
Mean (SD) no. of siblings	2 (1.28)	3 (0.89)	0.094‡
Mean (SD) birth weight (kg)§	2.97 (0.49)	2.96 (0.24)	0.931†
Mean (SD) duration of exclusive breastfeeding (months)	1.59 (0.82)	3.89 (1.26)	0.001‡
Mean (SD) no. of diarrhea episodes	5.42 (3.61)	7.5 (3.16)	0.173‡
Animals in the household	1	2	0.537*
Covered drinking water container	9	4	0.356*
Mother washed hands before feeding the child	4	5	0.362*

^*By Fisher's exact test.

^†By two-tailed t-test.

^‡By Mann-Whitney U test.

^§Data missing for one child.