Table 3.
Prevalence of fecal carriage of ESBL-producing isolates.
Bacterial isolates | Number of isolates | Number of ESBL producers (%) | p value | |||
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HS students | NHS students | HS students | NHS students | Total | ||
E. coli (n = 203) | 101 | 102 | 47 (46.5) | 19 (18.6) | 66 (32.5) | <0.001 |
Klebsiella species (n = 31) | 17 | 14 | 3 (17.6) | 0 (0) | 3 (9.7) | 0.10 |
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Total (N = 234) | 118 | 116 | 50 (42.4) | 19 (16.4) | 69 (29.5) | <0.001 |