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Table 5 Age distribution of mother and child pairs with identical diarrhoeagenic E. coli pathotypesa

From: Diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli in mother-child Pairs in Ile-Ife, South Western Nigeria

DEC Types

Paired

Age in months

 

Mother-child

    
 

N = 126

0–6 (%)

7–12 (%)

13–24 (%)

25–60 (%)

ETEC

5 (4.0)

0 (0)

4 (3.2)

1 (0.8)

0 (0)

EAEC

5 (4.0)

0 (0)

2 (1.6)

2 (1.6)

1 (0.8)

STEC

3 (2.4)

0 (0)

3 (2.4)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Total

13 (10.3)

0 (0)

9 (7.2)

3 (2.4)

1 (0.8)

  1. a ETEC Enterotoxigenic E. coli, EAEC Enteroaggregative E. coli, STEC Shiga toxin producing E. coli