Table 3.

Age and gender distribution of sporadic Cryptosporidium infections January 2008 to December 2010, NSW, Australia

Cryptosporidium sp.	Gender of patient	No. of infections in age group (yr)
		0–4	5–9	10–14	15–19	20–24	25–29	30–34	35–39	40–44	45–49	50–54	55–59	60–64	65+	Total
C. hominis	Female	30	7	2	5	1	7	8	6	3	0	0	3	2	4	78
	Male	33	9	6	0	1	1	4	5	3	1	0	0	1	3	67
	Subtotal	63	16	8	5	2	8	12	11	6	1	0	3	3	7	145
C. parvum	Female	12	4	5	1	1	3	4	5	0	1	0	0	0	2	38
	Male	18	3	2	0	2	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	32
	Subtotal	30	7	7	1	3	6	5	6	1	1	0	0	0	3	70
C. fayeri	Female	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	Male	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Subtotal	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	Total female	42	11	7	6	2	11	12	11	3	1	0	3	2	6	117
	Total male	51	12	8	0	3	4	5	6	4	1	0	0	1	4	99
	Total (%)	93 (43)	23 (11)	15 (7)	6 (3)	5 (2)	15 (7)	17 (8)	17 (8)	7 (3)	2 (0.9)	0 (0)	3 (1)	3 (1)	10 (5)	216 (100)