Table 2.

Prevalence of Pentatrichomonas hominis and Tritrichomonas foetus infection in pet dogs by age, gender and clinical symptoms using PCR

Variable		Age (months)a		Genderb		Clinical symptomsc
		≤12	>12	Male	Female	Diarrheic	Non-diarrheic
P. hominis	No. samples	45	270	150	165	85	230
	No. positive	24	75	46	53	43	56
	Prevalence (%)	53.3d	27.8	30.7	32.1	50.6d	24.3
T. foetus	No. samples	45	270	150	165	85	230
	No. positive	0	2	1	1	1	1
	Prevalence (%)	0	0.7	0.7	0.6	1.8	0.4

^aCompared with pet dogs over >12 months.

^bCompared with female dogs.

^cCompared with non-diarrheic dogs.

^dP<0.05.