Volume 18, Number 11—November 2012
Dispatch
Vibrio fluvialis in Patients with Diarrhea, Kolkata, India
Goutam Chowdhury, Gururaja P. Pazhani, Devarati Dutta, Sucharita Guin, Sanjucta Dutta, Santanu Ghosh, Hidemasa Izumiya, Masahiro Asakura, Shinji Yamasaki, Yoshifumi Takeda, Eiji Arakawa, Haruo Watanabe, Asish K. Mukhopadhyay, Mihir K. Bhattacharya, K. Rajendran, Gopinath Balakrish Nair, and Thandavarayan Ramamurthy
Table 2
Clinical features of Vibrio fluvialis–infected patients with diarrhea, Kolkata, India, 2002–2009
| Clinical feature |
No. (%) patients
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Sole infection | Mixed infection | |
| Type of diarrhea | ||
|
Watery |
36 (86) | 72 (81) |
|
Bloody mucus, loose |
7 (16) | 16 (19) |
| Dehydration status | ||
|
Severe |
12 (28) | 14 (16) |
|
Some or rare |
31 (72) | 74 (84) |
| Fever | ||
|
Yes |
4 (9) | 9 (10) |
|
No |
39 (91) | 79 (90) |
| Abdominal pain | ||
|
Yes |
5 (12) | 11 (12) |
|
No |
38 (88) | 77 (88) |
| Age | ||
|
>5 y |
30 (70) | 66 (75) |
|
<5 y |
13 (30) | 22 (25) |
| Sex | ||
|
M |
23 (53) | 58 (66) |
|
F |
20 (47) | 30 (34) |
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