Table 1 |
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| DAEC strains possessing Afa/Dr genes detected among patients and controls | |||||
| Group | Children | Adults | Total | ||
| Diarrhea | Control | Diarrhea | Control | ||
| Number of subjects enrolled | 127 | 127 | 143 | 119 | 516 |
| Number of subjects harboring DAEC | 21 (16.5%) | 25 (19.6%) | 27* (18.9%) | 5* (4.2%) | 78 (15.7%) |
| Number of DAEC strains isolated in each group | 50 | 58 | 27 | 15 | 150 |
*(Pā<ā0.01).
Mansan-Almeida et al. BMC Microbiology 2013 13:22 doi:10.1186/1471-2180-13-22