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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 2.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2009 Jan;80(1):16–19.

Table 1.

Characteristics of Giardial diarrhea among children in a community birth cohort in South India

Features of Giardial diarrhea N = 155 episodes
Acute (< 4 days) 113 (72.9%)
Indeterminate (4–14 days) 42 (27.1%)
Persistent (> 14 days) 0
Average duration of diarrhea (IQR) 2 days (2–4 days)
Maximum duration of diarrhea 9 days
N = 99 cases
Multiple episodes 34 cases
Maximum number of episodes 5 episodes
Relapses 12 (7.7%)
Recurrences 44 (28.4%)
Median interval between recurrent episodes (IQR) 125 days (58–167 days)

IQR = interquartile range.