Table 4.

Correlation coefficients of ambient temperature (Min=Minimum, Max=Maximum and Average) and rainfall on the rate of diarrhea due E. coli pathotypes.

	Ambient Temperature^			Rainfall^
Pathotype	Average	Max	Min	-
ETEC rate	0.63***	0.2	0.66***	0.1
EAEC rate	0.04	−0.1	0.01	−0.3
EPEC rate	0.1	−0.27	0.2	−0.02
STEC rate	0.4 *	0.5**	0.3	0.001

^{^}Temperature and rainfall coefficients as calculated by a regression model.

^*P ≤ 0.05;

^**P≤ 0.01;

^***P ≤ 0.001