Table 2.

Characteristics of Karemo resident children < 5 years hospitalized with AGE who had stool collected and those without stool collected, Siaya County Referral Hospital, Western Kenya, 2010–2013

Characteristic	Stool Sample Collected (N = 544)	Stool Sample Not collected (N = 261)	P-value
	n (%)	n (%)
Age
0–5 months	143 (26)	62 (24)	0.0034
6–11 months	204 (38)	81 (31)
12–23 months	139 (26)	66 (25)
24–59 months	58 (11)	52 (20)
Gender
Male	312 (57)	149 (57)	0.9
Female	232 (43)	112 (43)
Vesikari Score
Severe	268 (49)	93 (36)	< 0.0001
Mild	276 (51)	168 (64)