Multiple etiologies of infectious diarrhea and concurrent infections in a pediatric outpatient-based screening study in Odisha, India

Table 2 Frequencies of detection of etiological agents causing diarrhea in children

Infectious agent detected	Method of detection	Frequency (%) of detection in		p value
Infectious agent detected	Method of detection	Diarrheal group (n = 130)	Non-diarrheal group (n = 48)	p value
DEC^a	PCR	40 (30.7)	10 (20.83)	0.1935
STEC	PCR	14 (10.76)	3 (6.25)	0.3685
EPEC	PCR	28 (21.53)	5 (10.41)	0.0975
EHEC	PCR	1 (0.77)	0	0.9434
EAEC	PCR	9 (6.9)	1 (2.08)	0.2412
O 157	PCR	6 (4.61)	1 (2.08)	0.4525
Shigella spp.	PCR	31 (23.84)	2 (4.16)	0.0086*
Rotavirus^b	Immunochromatography	34 (26.15)	0	0.0135*
Adenovirus^b	Immunochromatography	6 (4.61)	1 (2.08)	0.4525
Cryptosporidium spp.	PCR	4 (3.07)	0	0.4091
Giardia spp.	PCR	1 (0.77)	0	0.3652

* Statistically significant
^a DEC includes all detected strains of diarrheagenic E. coli. Each of those strains were diagnosed using strain-specific primers as recommended in the previously published reports (see details as shown in Table 1)
^b Rotavirus and Adenovirus were detected by Immunochromatography test using commercially procured kit (Combi-Strip C-1004, Coris Bioconcept ltd- Belgium)

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