TABLE 5.
Median ages of patients and controls who tested positive or negative by real-time PCR
| Pathogen | Patients |
Controls |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median age (mo [n]) |
Pa | Median age (mo [n]) |
Pa | |||
| Positive | Negative | Positive | Negative | |||
| Adenovirus (all) | 14 (45) | 11 (120) | 0.003 | 30 (53) | 21.5 (112) | 0.01 |
| Norovirus GII | 9 (33) | 12 (132) | 0.0002 | 40 (4) | 24 (161) | 0.03 |
| Rotavirus | 12 (16) | 12 (149) | 0.74 | 24 (3) | 24 (162) | 0.64 |
| Cryptosporidium | 12 (49) | 12 (116) | 0.36 | 21.5 (18) | 24 (147) | 0.23 |
| ETEC-estA | 12 (55) | 12 (110) | 0.49 | 24 (39) | 24 (126) | 0.73 |
| Salmonella | 14 (9) | 12 (156) | 0.24 | 48 (4) | 24 (161) | 0.01 |
| Shigella ipaH | 13 (57) | 11 (108) | 0.0007 | 36 (54) | 18 (111) | <0.0001 |
a
Mann-Whitney U test. Data for agents showing associations with age are presented. The median age was 12 months for all 165 patients, in comparison with 24 months for all 165 controls.