Table 4.

Days of antibiotic treatment before and after culture results in the three groups.

	Parameters	Campylobacter (N = 70)	Shigella (N = 28)	Salmonella (N = 110)	P
Treatment before culture results (days)	N	55	22	10	0.588
	Mean (±s.d.)	3.1 (1.2)	3 (0.5)	2.9 (0.3)
	Median	3	3	3
	Q1, Q3	3, 3	3,3	3, 3
Treatment after culture results (days)	N	22	7	2	0.404
	Mean (±s.d.)	4.4 (3.3)	3 (0)	2 (0)
	Median	3	3	3
	Q1, Q3	3, 3	3, 3	3, 3

This table includes information concerning patients in the three pathogen groups, which was obtained from their medical charts.