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Table 2 Isolation frequency of enteric pathogens from under fives with diarrhoea in Dar es Salaam

From: Age specific aetiological agents of diarrhoea in hospitalized children aged less than five years in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

 

Number (%)

   Bacteria (n = 280)

 

DEC

64 (22.9%)

V. cholerae 01

16 (5.7%)

Shigella spp

15(5.4%)

S. flexneri

10 (66.7%)

S. dysenteriae

5 (33.3%)

Salmonella spp

7 (2.5%)

S. Typhimurium

4 (57.1%)

S. Enteritidis

2 (28.6%)

S. Typhi

1(14.3%)

   Protozoans (n = 270)

 

C. parvum

51 (18.9%)

G. lamblia

5 (1.9%)

   Viruses n = 270

 

Rotavirus

49 (18.1%

Norovirus

37(13.7%)

Adenovirus

7 (2.6%)

Astrovirus

1 (0.4%)

   Mixed infection (n = 270)

56 (20.7%)