TABLE 2.
Geographic distribution of Shigella isolates from patients with TD
| Geographic area | Total no. of isolates testeda | No. of isolates that produced the indicated toxin:
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S. flexneri(n = 22)
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S. sonnei(n = 26)
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S. dysenteriae(n = 3)
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| ShET-1 | ShET-2 | ShET-1 + ShET-2 | None | ShET-1 | ShET-2 | ShET-1 + ShET-2 | None | ShET-1 | ShET-2 | ShET-1 + ShET-2 | None | ||
| America (17)b | |||||||||||||
| Central America | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | ||||||
| South America | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Africa (16) | |||||||||||||
| West Africa | 9 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| East Africa | 4 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| North Africa | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Asia (18) | |||||||||||||
| India | 14 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | |||||||
| Middle East | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Southeast Asia | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Total | 51 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 3 | |||||
a
Total number of strains in each geographic area.
b
Values in parentheses are total number of strains from each continent.