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. 2024 Jul 9;10(14):e34384. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e34384

Table 2.

Distribution of Shigella isolates based on gender, hospital admission, and age categories during 2019–2022 in Mashhad. Iran.

Shigella species Gender
Hospital admission
Age groups*
Male No. (%) Female No. (%) Inpatient No. (%) Outpatient No. (%) Infant No. (%) Toddler No. (%) Preschool No. (%) School age child No. (%)
S. sonnei 36 (72.0) 28 (84.8) 35 (71.5) 29 (85.3) 12 (85.7) 6 (66.7) 25 (75.8) 21 (77.8)
S. flexneri 13 (26.0) 5 (15.1) 14 (28.5) 4 (11.7) 2 (14.3) 3 (33.3) 7 (21.2) 6 (22.2)
S. boydii 1 (2.0) 0 (00.0) 0 (00.0) 1 (3.0) 0 (00.0) 0 (00.0) 1 (3) 0 (00.0)
Total
50 (60.2)
33 (39.8)
49 (59)
34 (41)
14 (16.9)
9 (10.8)
33 (39.8)
27 (32.5)
Data analysis (V = 0.16, 95 % CI [0.02, 0.35], p = 0.33, N = 83) (V = 0.23, 95 % CI [0.04, 0.40], p = 0.05, N = 83) (V = 0.12, 95 % CI [0.08, 0.33], p = 0.87, N = 83)

Abbreviations: V, Cramer's V effect size; CI, confidence interval. p, p-value; * Infant, age ≤1 year; Toddler, 1 < age ≥3.

Preschool, 3 < age ≥6; School age child, 6 < age ≥12.