Table 1.

Detection of Giardia duodenalis and Cryptosporidium parvum infections using polymerase chain reaction analysis in human fecal samples from Mongolia, by age and sex

Variables	No. of sample	Positive no. of G. duodenalis (%)	Positive no. of C. parvum (%)
Age (year)
< 4	65	4 (6.15)	3 (4.62)
5–9	17	–	3 (17.65)
10–14	3		–
15–19	7	–	–
20–29	19	1 (5.26)	–
30–39	15	–	1 (6.67)
40–49	4	–	–
50–59	7	–	–
60+	1	–	–
Sex
Female	64	1 (1.56)	2 (3.13)
Male	74	4 (5.41)	5 (6.76)
Total	138	5 (3.62)	7 (5.07)