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Types of ETEC and EPEC isolated from children with diarrhea and controls
| Organism | No. (%) of infected children
|
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diarrheal (n = 814) | Control (n = 814) | ||
| ETEC positive for: | |||
| LT only | 37 (4.6) | 41 (5.0) | 0.64 |
| ST only | 68 (8.4) | 18 (2.2) | 0.0001 |
| LT and ST | 32 (3.9) | 13 (1.6) | 0.004 |
| EPEC positive with: | |||
| eae probe only | 20 (2.5) | 22 (2.7) | 0.75 |
| EAF and eae probes | 79 (9.7) | 22 (2.7) | 0.001 |
