Table 1.

Distribution of intestinal parasite species by age group among children under 5 years of age with diarrhoeal diseases presenting to Adare Hospital and Millennium Health Centre, 2011, Hawassa, South Ethiopia

Age, in months	E .histolytica/dispar/moshkovskii		G. duodenalis		Cryptosporidium species		A. lumbricoides/H. nana/T. trichiura		Total
	Positive	Negative	Positive	Negative	Positive	Negative	Positive	Negative	n (%)
	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
<6	0 (0)	30 (100)	2 (7)	28 (93)	1 (3)	29 (97)	0 (0)	30 (100)	30 (19)
6–11	2 (7)	26 (93)	0 (0)	28 (100)	0 (0)	28 (100)	2 (7)	26 (93)	28 (18)
12–23	3 (7)	39 (93)	1 (2)	41 (98)	0 (0)	42 (100)	2 (5)	40 (95)	42 (27)
24–35	6 (20)	24 (80)	4 (13)	26 (87)	2 (7)	28 (93)	3 (10)	27 (90)	30 (19)
36–47	2 (15)	11 (85)	2 (15)	11 (85)	0 (0)	13 (100)	4 (31)	9 (69)	13 (8)
48–59	5 (33)	10 (67)	2 (13)	13 (87)	3 (20)	12 (80)	2 (13)	13 (87)	15 (9)
Total	18 (11)	140 (89)	11 (7)	147 (93)	6 (4)	152 (96)	13 (8)	145 (92)	158 (100)