Table 2.

Infectious disease incidence and type during follow-up in the intention-to-treat group (Mean [CI95])

	EF group	SF group	All infants
n	419	347	771
Infectious disease†(%)	31.0*	40.6	35.4
Upper respiratory tract infections (%)	22.0	26.6	24.1
Otitis (%)	5.2	8.3	6.6
Acute diarrhoea (%)	3.5*	6.8	5.0
Lower respiratory tract infectious disease (%)	5.2	4.3	5.8
Genital and urinary infectious disease (%)	0.2	0.2	0.2
Dermatologic infectious disease (%)	0.7	1.1	0.9
Ophthalmologic infectious disease (%)	1.6	1.4	1.5
Virus-related dermatologic infectious disease (%)	0.9	1.4	1.1
Monthly number of infectious diseases (n)	0.23 [0.18; 0.27]	0.25[0.21; 0.30]	0.24[0.21; 0.27]

^*p < 0.05 versus SF (Student’s t-test or χ²/Fisher's exact test).

^†Percent of infants with at least one infectious disease during follow-up.