Table 1.

Bacteriological culture results distribution by age and sex in Bahir Dar Regional Research Laboratory Center, December, 2014

	N (%)	N (%)	p-value
Bacteriological culture results by age	Culture negative	Culture positive
<5	28 (9)	13 (9.6)	0.046
5-15	38 (12.3)	7 (5.1)
16-35	162 (52.3)	76 (55.9)
36-50	56 (18.1)	20 (14.7)
>50	26 (8.4)	20 (14.7)
Total	310 (100)	136 (100)
Bacteriological culture results by sex	Negative	Positive	0.001
Female	192 (61.9)	107 (78.7)
Male	118 (38.1)	29 (21.3)
Total	310 (100)	136