Volume 8, Number 1—January 2002
Research
Prevalence and Genetic Profiling of Virulence Determinants of Non-O157 Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Isolated from Cattle, Beef, and Humans, Calcutta, India
Asis Khan*, Shinji Yamasaki*†, Toshio Sato†, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy*, Amit Pal*, Simanti Datta*, Nandini Roy Chowdhury*, Suresh Chandra Das‡, Asim Sikdar‡, Teizo Tsukamoto§, Sujit Kumar Bhattacharya*, Yoshifumi Takeda¶, and Gopinath Balakrish Nair*#
Table 3
Age distribution of patients admitted to hospitals where stool samples were examined
| Age (in years) | Infectious Diseases Hospital (%) | B. C. Roy Hospital for Children (%) |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 5 | 25.1 | 97.6 |
| >5-15 | 10.1 | 2.4 |
| >15-25 | 20.2 | - |
| >25-35 | 18.0 | - |
| >35-45 | 11.0 | - |
| >45-55 | 7.6 | - |
| >55 | 8.1 | - |
