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Table 2 DEC detected in children hospitalized with diarrhoea (N = 2815)

From: Novel multiplex real-time PCR assays reveal a high prevalence of diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli pathotypes in healthy and diarrhoeal children in the south of Vietnam

Pathotypes

Target gene

N

%

ETEC

 

182

6.5

 LT-ETEC

elt

167

5.9

 ST-ETEC

est

7

0.2

 LT-ST-ETEC

elt & est

8

0.3

EAEC

aggR

443

15.7

EIEC/Shigella

ipaH

349

12.4

EPEC

 

343

12.2

 Atypical EPEC

eae

322

11.4

 Typical EPEC

eae & bfpA

21

0.7

EHEC/STEC

 

46

1.6

 O157

eae & rfbE_O157

20

0.7

 non-eae O157

rfbE_O157

26

0.9

 

stx1/stx2

4

0.1

Negative

 

1837

65.3