Volume 17, Number 4—April 2011
Research
Diarrheagenic Pathogens in Polymicrobial Infections
Brianna Lindsay1, T. Ramamurthy1, Sourav Sen Gupta, Yoshifumi Takeda, Krishnan Rajendran, G. Balakrish Nair, and O. Colin Stine
Table 1
Characteristics of 2,748 patients hospitalized with diarrhea, Kolkata, India, November 2007–February 2010*
| Characteristic |
Total, no. (%) |
| No. pathogens | |
| 0 | 766 (27.9) |
| >1 | 1,982 (72.1) |
| 1 | 1,169 (42.5) |
| 2 | 589 (21.4) |
| 3 | 165 (6.0) |
| 4 | 44 (1.6) |
| 5 | 10 (0.4) |
| 6 |
5 (0.2) |
| Age group, y* | |
| <1 | 360 (13.1) |
| >1–2 | 233 (8.5) |
| >2–5 | 177 (6.4) |
| >5 –15 | 243 (8.8) |
| >15 –45 | 1,210 (44.0) |
| >45 |
525 (19.1) |
| Gender | |
| M | 1,482 (53.9) |
| F |
1,266 (46.1) |
| Residence | |
| Urban | 2,226 (81.0) |
| Rural |
522 (19.0) |
| Religion | |
| Hindu | 2,043 (74.3) |
| Muslim | 698 (25.4) |
| Christian | 5 (0.2) |
| Other |
2 (0.1) |
| Season | |
| Nov–Feb | 890 (32.4) |
| Mar–Jun | 837 (30.5) |
| Jul–Oct |
1,021 (37.1) |
| Feces | |
| Watery | 2,080 (75.7) |
| Loose | 561 (20.4) |
| Bloody | 21 (0.8) |
| Mucoid | 15 (0.5) |
| Bloody and mucoid | 71 (92.6) |
*Mean ± SD patient age 26 ± 22 y.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
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