Table 3.

Detection of enteric pathogens in children aged 0–59 months hospitalized for gastroenteritis between November 2007 and December 2014.

Pathogen	n	%
Total number of patients tested to all pathogens a	1101	100.0
Positive for any pathogen	628	57.0
Negative for all tested pathogens	473	43.0
Total number of norovirus positive patients	131	11.9
Distribution of patients with identified pathogens
Patients with viruses
Norovirus	117	10.6
Rotavirus	338	30.7
Norovirus and rotavirus	7	0.6
Patients with bacterial pathogen
Shigella	30	2.7
Salmonella	20	1.8
Campylobacter	78	7.1
Shigella and Campylobacter	1	0.1
Patients with mixed viral and bacterial pathogens
Norovirus and Salmonella	4	0.4
Norovirus and Campylobacter	3	0.3
Rotavirus and Shigella	1	0.1
Rotavirus and Salmonella	6	0.5
Rotavirus and Campylobacter	23	2.1

^aOnly 1101/1179 (94.4%) children who were tested for norovirus were also tested for the presence of rotavirus, Shigella, Salmonella, and Campylobacter.