Table 2.
Distribution of different diarrhoeal pathogens in commonly domesticated animals
| Infectious agents | Animal host |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Sheep (n=60) | Cattle (n=45) | Goats (n=45) | |
| DEC | 25 (41.7) | 15 (33.3) | 16 (35.5) |
| STEC | 19 (31.7) | 12 (26.7) | 12 (26.7) |
| EPEC | 11 (18.3) | 3 (6.7) | 8 (17.8) |
| EHEC | 11 (18.3) | 4 (8.9) | 6 (13.3) |
| EAEC | 3 (5.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (2.2) |
| 157 | 0 (0.0) | 3 (6.7) | 4 (8.9) |
| Shigella | 4 ((6.7) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (2.2) |
| Rotavirus | 3 (5.0) | 1 (2.2) | 0 (0.0) |
| Adenovirus | 3 (5.0) | 3 (6.7) | 2 (4.4) |
| Cryptosporidium | 2 (3.3) | 5 (11.1) | 8 (17.8) |
| Giardia | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (2.2) |
Values are presented as number (%).
DEC, diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli; STEC, Shiga toxin-producing E. coli; EPEC, enteropathogenic E. coli; EHEC, enterohemorrhagic E. coli; EAEC, enteroaggregative E. coli.