Table 2.
Association of age and gender with the microbiological profiles of microbial keratitis
| Gram-positive (N = 309) |
Gram-negative (N = 126) |
Fungi (N = 20) |
Acanthamoeba (N = 23) |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age, years | 56.3 (21.1) | 57.6 (20.4) | 55.3 (21.8) | 34.4 (12.9) | <0.001 |
| Gender, N (%) | 0.404 | ||||
| Female | 151 (48.9) | 60 (47.6) | 7 (35.0) | 14 (60.9) | |
| Male | 158 (51.1) | 66 (52.4) | 13 (65.0) | 9 (39.1) |
Age is presented in mean (SD). One-way ANOVA test was used to analyse the mean differences and χ2 test was used to analyse the categorical variables between the four groups. Significant P-value (<0.05) is underlined