Table 2.
The isolation rate of the bacterial pathogens by age and sex.
| No. of specimens (n = 14,886) |
No. of isolates (n = 3,526) |
Salmonella spp. (n = 476) |
Pathogenic Escherichia coli (n = 777) |
Shigella spp. (n = 13) |
Vibrio parahaemolyticus (n = 26) |
Campylobacter spp. (n = 215) |
Clostridium perfringens (n = 508) |
Staphylococcus aureus (n = 1,144) |
Bacillus cereus (n = 356) |
Listeria monocytogenes (n = 1) |
Yersinia enterocolitica (n = 10) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (y) | 0–9 | 6,703 | 1,570 | 249 | 376 | 4 | 0 | 47 | 132 | 606 | 156 | 0 | 0 |
| 10–19 | 951 | 263 | 47 | 57 | 1 | 1 | 49 | 34 | 57 | 17 | 0 | 0 | |
| 20–29 | 512 | 109 | 5 | 29 | 0 | 2 | 33 | 15 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| 30–39 | 535 | 72 | 12 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| 40–49 | 713 | 142 | 8 | 42 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 18 | 37 | 26 | 0 | 0 | |
| 50–59 | 1,063 | 200 | 23 | 61 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 40 | 42 | 19 | 0 | 0 | |
| 60–69 | 920 | 209 | 17 | 39 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 50 | 56 | 40 | 0 | 0 | |
| ≥ 70 | 1,979 | 471 | 27 | 64 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 131 | 185 | 45 | 0 | 1 | |
| Unknown | 1,510 | 490 | 88 | 90 | 6 | 7 | 43 | 85 | 121 | 40 | 1 | 9 | |
| Sex | Male | 6,787 | 1,588 | 221 | 354 | 5 | 8 | 95 | 200 | 547 | 153 | 0 | 5 |
| Female | 5,993 | 1,352 | 172 | 286 | 3 | 12 | 77 | 183 | 463 | 154 | 0 | 2 | |
| Unknown | 2,106 | 586 | 83 | 137 | 5 | 6 | 43 | 125 | 134 | 49 | 1 | 3 |