Table 2.

Prevalence of enteropathogens in children 6–59 months old and household chickens, and the number of children and chicken pairs from the same household with a shared enteropathogen detection in Greater Accra, Ghana (October and November 2018)*

Pathogen	Children (N = 259)	Chickens (N = 156)	Child and chicken pairs†
aEPEC	118 (45.6%)	60 (38.5%)	33/156
STEC	11 (4.3%)	18 (11.5%)	3/156
C. jejuni/C. coli	30 (11.6%)	70 (44.9%)	7/156
Salmonella	2 (0.8%)	6 (3.9%)	0/156

aEPEC = atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli; C. jejuni/coli = Campylobacter jejuni or Campylobacter coli; STEC = Shiga toxin–producing E. coli.

^*Values are n (%). Ct cutoff for enteropathogen detection in children’s stool is Ct ≤ 35 and in chickens’ stool is Ct ≤ 40.

^†Value indicates the total number of pairs in which a child and chicken from the same household were both positive for a pathogen (e.g., in 33 households out of the 156 chicken-owning households, children and chickens both tested positive for aEPEC).