Table 2.

Detection of diarrhoeagenic E. coli from 537 diarrhoeal children and 113 control children from Al-Adan and Al-Farwaniya hospitals, Kuwait

	No (%) of infected children		P value
Organism	Diarrhoeal	Control
ETECa	10 (1.86)	0 (0.00)	0.22
EPECb	45 (8.38)	8 (7.08)	0.85
EIECc	12 (2.24)	0 (0.00)	0.24
EHECd	4 (0.75)	0 (0.00)	1.00
EAECe	14 (2.61)	0 (0.00)	0.15

^aEnterotoxigenic E. coli ^bEnteropathogenic E. coli

^cEnteroinvasive E. coli ^d Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli

^eEnteroaggregative E. coli