Pediatric Giardia Infection Counts and Epidemiological Characteristics

9.5 KB of tabular data in XLS format, authored by Lester Gutiérrez and last updated on 2026-05-15. The dataset compares epidemiological characteristics for children with varying numbers of Giardia infections detected in their first three years of life against a control group of children without infection.

Use Cases

• Identify epidemiological risk factors for Giardia infection based on characteristics mentioned in the description.
• Compare infection outcomes between children with low (≤2) and high (>2) infection counts during early life.
• Analyze the relationship between demographic or environmental factors and susceptibility to repeated Giardia infections.

Strengths

• Data is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
• The file is small (9.5 KB), ensuring quick download and easy inspection.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

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Time Range

Covers infections detected during the first three years of a child's life.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 18:00:42; freshness should be verified.