Table 1.
Prevalence of Campylobacter, Campylobacter jejuni, and Campylobacter coli in child stools using conventional PCR and MeTRS approaches.
| Taxonomic group | Conventional PCR | MeTRS* | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive samples | Prevalence (%) | Positive samples | Prevalence (%) | |
| Campylobacter genus | 51 | 50 (40-61) | 88 | 88 (80–93.6) |
| C. jejuni | 13 | 13 (7-21) | 37 | 37 (27-46) |
| C. coli | 2 | 2 (0.2–7) | 24 | 24 (17-32) |
*
samples were considered positive for Campylobacter spp. if at least 10 reads per sample of at least 50 bp long were mapped to reference genome with a Z-score higher than 1.