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. 2023 Dec 31;5(6):372–376. doi: 10.35772/ghm.2023.01079

Table 2. Organisms that caused diarrhea and corresponding travel regions.

Organisms Southeast Asia South Asia Africa East Asia Central and South America Central and West Asia Oceania Europe North America
Case Numbers 498 128 120 75 26 20 19 17 16
Pathogenic organism unknown 377 102 106 61 24 16 15 15 15
(76%) (80%) (88%) (81%) (92%) (80%) (79%) (88%) (94%)
    Bacteria (total cases) 105 17 9 13 2 4 4 1 1
    Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli 3 5 2 1 0 1 1 0 0
    Enteroinvasive E. coli 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    Enteropathogenic E. coli 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    Plesiomonas shigelloides 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
    Vibrio parahaemolyticus 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    Vibrio cholerae 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    Salmonella spp. 11 0 0 5 0 0 1 0 0
    Shigella spp. 13 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1
    Campylobacter spp. 70 10 5 7 0 3 2 1 0
Viruses (total cases) 2 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
    Norovirus 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
    Rotavirus 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Protoza (total cases) 14 6 4 0 0 0 0 1 0
    Cryptosporidium spp. 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
    Giardia lamblia 5 6 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
    Entamoeba histolytica 8 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0