Table 3. Bacterial isolates reported by published articles from diarrheic patient.
| Bacterial isolates | No of Studies | Studies reporting the agent (%) | No of sample | No positive | Positives (%) | Prevalence (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | Maximum | Pooled (95% CI) | ||||||
| Shigella spp. | 35 | 41.67 | 10,026 | 632 | 5.61 | 1.03 | 37.50 | 6.24 (4.66–7.81) |
| Salmonella enterica | 35 | 38.09 | 11,360 | 644 | 5.67 | 0.38 | 62.50 | 5.06 (4.04–6.09) |
| Escherichia coli | 9 | 7.1 | 2392 | 514 | 21.49 | 0.93 | 51.65 | 19.79 (10.48–29.09) |
| Campylobacter spp. | 5 | 6.0 | 1079 | 123 | 11.40 | 4.12 | 16.74 | 10.76 (5.62–15.91) |
| Citrobacter spp. | 1 | 1.2 | 253 | 10 | 3.95 | - | - | - |
| Enterobacter spp. | 1 | 1.2 | 163 | 2 | 1.23 | - | - | - |
| Klebsiella spp. | 1 | 1.2 | 163 | 11 | 6.75 | - | - | - |
| Proteus spp. | 1 | 1.2 | 163 | 7 | 4.29 | - | - | - |
| Total | 88* | |||||||
*An article may report one or more bacterial species from diarrheic patients; No = Number; % = Percent; CI = confident interval.