Table 2.
Clinical features and management of diarrhoea cases, by organism isolated (excluding 38 cases with mixed infections)
| Diarrhoea cases N = 16,187 | Shigella | Vibrio | ||||||
| flexneri N = 844 | sonnei N = 269 | dysenteriae N = 21 | boydii N = 38 | cholerae O1 N = 143 | cholerae non-O1 N = 171 | parahaemolyticus N = 129 | ||
| Mean (median) age in years | 11 (2) | 19 (11) | 7 (2) | 22 (8) | 23 (20) | 15 (7) | 14 (3) | 33 (32) |
| Number (%) female | 7,643 (47) | 479 (57) | 135 (50) | 7 (33) | 25 (66) | 78 (55) | 84 (49) | 75 (58) |
| Number (%) with liquid stool | 15,543 (96) | 787 (93) | 250 (93) | 18 (86) | 35 (92) | 140 (98) | 166 (97) | 129 (100) |
| Number (%) with bloody stool | 1,174 (7) | 213 (25) | 42 (16) | 2 (10) | 8 (21) | 6 (4) | 11 (6) | 5 (4) |
| Number (%) with vomiting | 7,053 (44) | 231 (27) | 71 (26) | 7 (33) | 4 (11) | 75 (53) | 72 (42) | 77 (60) |
| Number (%) who had taken antibiotics | 607 (4) | 42 (6) | 8 (3) | 0 | 0 | 5 (4) | 3 (2) | 1 (1) |
| Number (%) with severe dehydration | 168 (1) | 4 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 (10) | 5 (3) | 0 |
| Number (%) with fever | 5,164 (33) | 279 (34) | 89 (33) | 8 (38) | 7 (19) | 24 (17) | 52 (31) | 25 (19) |
| Number (%) orally rehydrated | 11,597 (72) | 547 (65) | 194 (72) | 14 (67) | 26 (68) | 108 (76) | 126 (74) | 91 (71) |
| Number (%) intravenously rehydrated | 2,338 (14) | 77 (9) | 12 (4) | 2 (10) | 2 (5) | 49 (34) | 23 (14) | 33 (26) |
| Number (%) prescribed antibiotics | 14,800 (97) | 803 (98) | 253 (98) | 20 (100) | 29 (100) | 127 (98) | 153 (90) | 120 (93) |
| Number (%) referred to hospital | 2,044 (13) | 57 (7) | 13 (5) | 0 | 2 (5) | 31 (22) | 20 (12) | 20 (16) |