Table 3.
Clinical symptoms in diarrhoea outpatients by different infections
| Positive (n=4219) |
Negative (n=4578) |
P values | Bacterial infections (n=1147) | Viral infections (n=2914) | Bacterial–viral mixed infections (n=158) | P values |
Vibrio parahaemolyticus
* (n=396) |
DEC* (n=302) |
Salmonella spp* (n=255) | Norovirus* (n=1744) | Rotavirus* (n=714) | Other infections* (n=808) | P values | |
| Fever, N (%) | 553 (13.11) |
495 (10.81) |
0.0009 | 219 (19.09) |
312 (10.71) |
22 (13.92) |
<0.0001 | 46 (11.62) |
43 (14.24) |
72 (28.24) |
169 (9.69) |
96 (13.45) |
127 (15.72) |
<0.0001 |
| Nausea, N (%) | 1768 (41.91) |
1561 (34.10) |
<0.0001 | 442 (38.54) |
1263 (43.34) |
63 (39.87) |
0.0175 | 224 (56.27) |
87 (28.81) |
71 (27.84) |
790 (45.30) |
309 (43.28) |
287 (35.52) |
<0.0001 |
| Vomiting, N (%) | 1190 (28.21) |
916 (20.01) |
<0.0001 | 269 (23.45) |
878 (30.13) |
43 (27.22) |
0.0001 | 164 (41.41) |
41 (13.58) |
37 (14.51) |
595 (34.12) |
195 (27.31) |
158 (19.55) |
<0.0001 |
| Abdominal pain, N (%) | 2071 (49.09) |
2446 (53.43) |
<0.0001 | 741 (64.60) |
1257 (43.14) |
73 (46.20) |
<0.0001 | 285 (71.97) |
170 (56.29) |
151 (59.22) |
777 (44.55) |
321 (44.96) |
367 (45.42) |
<0.0001 |
| Faecal property, N (%) | ||||||||||||||
| Watery | 3218 (76.27) |
3150 (68.81) |
<0.0001 | 814 (70.97) |
2283 (78.35) |
121 (76.58) |
<0.0001 | 323 (81.57) |
202 (66.89) |
179 (70.20) |
1344 (77.06) |
583 (81.65) |
587 (72.65) |
<0.0001 |
| Loose | 883 (20.93) |
1202 (26.26) |
267 (23.28) |
583 (20.01) |
33 (20.89) |
54 (13.64) |
85 (28.15) |
61 (23.92) |
372 (21.33) |
121 (16.95) |
190 (23.51) |
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| Mucous | 72 (1.71) |
143 (3.12) |
38 (3.31) |
31 (1.06) |
3 (1.90) |
8 (2.02) |
11 (3.64) |
11 (4.31) |
18 (1.03) |
6 (0.84) |
18 (2.23) |
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| Else | 46 (1.09) |
83 (1.81) |
28 (2.44) |
17 (0.58) |
1 (0.63) |
11 (2.78) |
4 (1.32) |
4 (1.57) |
10 (0.57) |
4 (0.56) |
13 (1.61) |
Bold face: p<0.05.
Cochren-Mantel-Haenszel test was used for comparison of categorical variables.
*Simplex infections.
DEC, diarrhoeagenic E. coli.