Prevalence and Subtype Analysis of Blastocystis hominis Isolated from Patients in the Northeast of Iran

Table 2

The rate of Blastocystis spp. infection in different age groups and the number of sequenced cases in each group.

Age groups	Infection		Total	Total number of sequences
	Positive	Negative
<20	30 (9.5%)	336 (90.5%)	366 (20.0%)	5
20-29	32 (9.1%)	344 (90.9%)	376 (22.2%)	4
30-39	45 (12.5%)	414 (87.5%)	459 (22.8%)	7
40-49	18 (5.2%)	375 (94.8%)	393 (21.7%)	2
50-59	13 (12.1%)	144 (87.9%)	157 (6.8%)	2
>60	14 (13.7%)	113 (86.3%)	127 (6.5%)	2
Total	152 (9.6%)	1726 (90.4%)	1878 (100%)	22