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Table 3 Gender-wise distribution of incidences of infectious etiologies of diarrhea in children

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

Total no of samples

Total no. with an infectious diagnosis

No (%) of cases tested positive for different etiologies

Cryptosporidium

Adenovirus

Rotavirus*

Shigella stx

Giardia

DEC

Male

 70

38 (54.28)

3 (4.28)

2 (2.85)

28 (40)

20 (28.57)

1 (1.42)

22 (31.42)

Female

 60

36 (60)

1 (1.66)

4 (4.66)

6 (10)

11 (18.33)

0 (0)

18 (30)

Statistics

 p value

0.5121

0.406

0.3158

0.0003

0.1749

0.5589

0.8604

 95% CI (lower, upper)

0.3937, 1.5919

0.2675, 26.0903

0.0727, 2.3316

2.2755, 15.8209

0.7734, 4.1051

0.1044, 65.3068

0.5062, 2.2595

 Odds ratio

0.7917

2.642

0.4118

6

1.7818

2.6115

1.0694

  1. Percentages are calculated based on the total number of male and female cases with symptoms of diarrhea as included in the present study (n = 70 and 60, respectively)
  2. DEC diarrheagenic Escherichia coli
  3. * Statistically significant
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