Table 2. Clinical symptoms of party participants during outbreak of gastroenteritis associated with Escherichia albertii, by pathogen identified, Japan*.
Symptom | E. albertii, n = 21† | E. albertii and E. coli O183:H18, n = 7 | E. coli O183:H18, n = 3 | None,‡ n =11§ |
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Diarrhea | 17 (81)¶ | 7 (100)§ | 1 (33) | 4 (36) |
Abdominal pain | 16 (76)¶ | 6 (86)§ | 2 (67) | 3 (27) |
Nausea | 5 (24) | 5 (71)§ | 0 | 1 (9) |
Fever | 8 (38) | 4 (57) | 2 (67) | 4 (36) |
None | 1 (5)¶ | 0 | 0 | 5 (45) |
*Values are no. (%). None, negative for both pathogens. †One symptomatic person was excluded because no clinical record was available. ‡Negative for both pathogens. §One person was excluded because no clinical record was available. ¶A 2-tailed Fisher exact test (p<0.05) showed significant differences between the groups from which E. albertii or E. coli O183:H18 was isolated and the groups from which they were not isolated.