Table 1.

Age groups and gender wise distribution of DEC pathotypes in children and adults

DEC infection types	DEC pathotypes	Genes	DEC infection in children (n = 45)							DEC infection in adults (n = 18)
			Gender		Age in months (median* (IQR) − 12 (5.25–24))					Gender		Age in years (mean [± SD] − 44.74 [±15.24])
			Male	Female	0–12	13–24	25–36	37–48	49–60	Male	Female	18–24	25–36	37–48	49–85
Single DEC infection	Typical EPEC	eaeA and bfpA	2	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Atypical EPEC	eaeA	3	2	2	2	1	0	0	1	3	0	1	1	2
		bfpA	5	8	7	6	0	0	0	5	1	0	1	3	2
	ETEC	lt&st	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	1	1
		lt	2	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		st	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
	EAEC	aggR	3	2	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	0
	EIEC	ial	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	STEC	stx1	4	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
DEC Co-infection	Atypical EPEC + Atypical EPEC	eaeA + bfpA	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	EAEC + EIEC	aggR + ial	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Atypical EPEC + STEC	bfpA + stx1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	EPEC/ETEC (Hybrid DEC Strain) + atypical EPEC	eaeA/bfpA/lt + bfpA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
Hybrid DEC infection	EAEC/EPEC	aggR/bfpA	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	EAEC/EIEC	stx1/ial	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total			25	20	21	20	1	1	2	12	6	1	5	5	7
			(n = 45; p value ≤ 0.01)							(n = 18; p value ≤ 0.01)

DEC diarrhoeagenic E. coli, EPEC enteropathogenic E. coli, ETEC enterotoxigenic E. coli, EAEC enteroaggregative E. coli, STEC Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, EIEC enteroinvasive E. coli, NTEC necrotoxigenic E. coli, CDEC cell-detaching E. coli, IQR interquartile range, SD stranded deviation

*Age expressed in median (non-normally distribution)