Table 3.
Distribution by age of diarrhoeal pathogens detected in humans and animals
| Infectious agent | Humans |
Animals |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ≤2 yr (n=238) | >2 yr (n=78) | Young (n=35) | Adult (n=115) | |
| DEC | 49 (20.6) | 40 (51.3) | 12 (34.3) | 46 (40.0) |
| STEC | 15 (6.3) | 15 (19.2) | 8 (22.8) | 34 (29.6) |
| EPEC | 34 (14.3) | 14 (17.9) | 5 (14.3) | 17 (14.8) |
| EHEC | 10 (4.2) | 4 (5.1) | 5 (14.3) | 16 (13.9) |
| EAEC | 9 (3.8) | 5 (6.4) | 1 (2.8) | 3 (2.6) |
| O157 | 8 (3.4) | 2 (2.6) | 0 (0.0) | 6 (5.2) |
| Shigella | 32 (13.4) | 11 (14.1) | 1 (2.8) | 4 (3.5) |
| Rotavirus | 47 (19.7) | 7 (9.0) | 2 (5.7) | 2 (1.7) |
| Adenovirus | 12 (5.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (5.7) | 5 (4.3) |
| Cryptosporidium | 6 (2.5) | 6 (7.7) | 4 (11.4) | 11 (9.6) |
| Giardia | 1 (0.4) | 1 (1.3) | 1 (2.8) | 0 (0.0) |
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.