Table 3.
Distribution of E. coli and DEC in different samples types
| Sample type | E. coli n (%) | DEC pathotypes n (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | ETEC | EHEC | STEC | EAEC | aEPEC | ||
| Total (n=720) | 283 (39.3) | 84 (11.6) | 63 (75) | 8 (9.5) | 8 (9.5) | 3 (3.5) | 2 (2.3) |
| Beef carcasses swab (n=120) | 50 (41.6) | 26 (21.6) | 9 (34.6) | 8 (30.7) | 6 (23) | 3 (11.5) | |
| Imported chicken carcasses swabs (n=120) | 52 (43.3) | 23 (19.1) | 21 (91.3) | 2 (8.6) | |||
| Fish surfaces swabs (n=120) | 47 (39.1) | 19 (15.8) | 19 (100) | ||||
| Imported and local raw burger (n=120) | 45 (37.5) | 7 (5.8) | 5 (71.4) | 2 (28.5) | |||
| Local raw ground meat (n=120) | 46 (38.3) | 9 (7.5) | 9 (100) | ||||
| Local raw milk (n=120) | 43 (35.8) | ||||||
DEC: Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli, ETEC: Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, EHEC: Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli, STEC: Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli, EAEC: Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli, and aEPEC: Atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli