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Fecal carriage rate of ESBL-PE among hospitalized patients and healthy volunteers
| Strain | Hospitalized patients (n = 51) |
Healthy volunteers (n = 38) |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Escherichia coli n (%) | 35 (69%) | 29 (76%) | 64 (72%) |
| Klebsiella pneumoniae n (%) | 11 (21%) | 5 (13%) | 16 (18%) |
| Enterobacter cloacae n (%) | 5 (10%) | 1 (3%) | 6 (7%) |
| Citrobacter freundii n (%) | 0 | 2 (5%) | 2 (2%) |
| Morganella morgani n (%) | 0 | 1 (3%) | 1 (1%) |
