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Table 2 Clinical data of symptomatic patients with severe manifestations, enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli infection, or norovirus infection

From: EHEC O111:H8 strain and norovirus GII.4 Sydney [P16] causing an outbreak in a daycare center, Brazil, 2019

Clinical data

Cases, n (%)

(n = 27)

EHEC/HUS/HCa, n

(n = 5)

Norovirus, n (%)

(n = 11)

Diarrhea

26 (96.3)

5

11 (100)

Mucus in stool

5 (18.5)

4

2 (18.2)

Blood in stool

5 (18.5)

4

2 (18.2)

Vomiting

12 (44.4)

3

6 (54.5)

Fever

11 (40.7)

2

0

Convulsion

1 (3.7)

1

0

Hematuria

2 (7.4)

2

4 (27.3)

Hospitalization

7b (25.9)

4

4 (27.3)

  1. aEHEC enterohemorrhagic E. coli isolates (n = 2); HUS hemolytic uremic syndrome, HC hemorrhagic colitis. bOne child was positive for both EHEC and norovirus
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BMC Microbiology

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