Table 2.
Isolation rates of bacterial pathogens from stools from hospitals and schools in the Venda region of South Africa
| Bacterial spp. | Hospital samples (n=528) |
School samples (n=295) |
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| Diarrhoeal (n=269) No. (%) | Non-diarrhoeal (n=259) No. (%) | Total No. (%) | Significance (p value) | Diarrhoeal (n=39) No. (%) | Non-diarrhoeal (n=256) No. (%) | Total No. (%) | Significance (p value) | |
| Campylobacter spp. | 67 (24.9) | 22 (8.4) | 89 (16.8) | <0.0001 | 5 (12.8) | 4 (1.6) | 9 (3.05) | <0.001 |
| Salmonella spp. | 22 (8.1) | 8 (3) | 30 (5.7) | 0.012 | 3 (7.7) | 4 (1.6) | 7 (2.4) | .019 |
| Shigella spp. | 32 (11.9) | 13 (5) | 45 (8.5) | 0.005 | 3 (7.7) | 3 (1.2) | 6 (2) | 0.002 |
| Aeromonas spp. | 56 (20.8) | 16 (6.2) | 78 (14.7) | <0.001 | 5 (12.8) | 2 (0.8) | 7 (2.3) | <0.001 |
| Plesiomonas shigelloides | 24 (8.9) | 0 (0) | 24 (4.5) | <0.001 | 2 (5.1) | 0 (0) | 2 (0.6) | <0.001 |
| Vibrio spp. | 12 (4.5) | 4 (1.5) | 16 (3) | 0.001 | 1 (2.5) | 1 (0.4) | 2 (0.6) | 0.123 |