Table 2 |
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Frequency of putative virulence-associated determinants of atypical EPEC strains in study subjects with different clinical presentations. |
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No. of strains positive for:a |
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Clinical presentation |
BfpA |
BfpB |
Cdt |
Efa1 |
LpfO113 |
NleB1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
All diarrhoea (n = 57) |
5 |
6 |
7 |
7 |
13 |
18 |
|
No diarrhoea (n = 10) |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
|
Acute diarrhoea (n = 12) |
1 |
4 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
|
Persistent diarrhoea (n = 11) |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
|
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a Only determinants that were present in more than three isolates overall were included in this analysis. |
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Tennant et al. BMC Microbiology 2009 9:117 doi:10.1186/1471-2180-9-117 |
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