Volume 19, Number 3—March 2013
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Vibrio cholerae Non-O1, Non-O139 Serogroups and Cholera-like Diarrhea, Kolkata, India
Devarati Dutta1, Goutam Chowdhury1, Gururaja P. Pazhani, Sucharita Guin, Sanjucta Dutta, Santanu Ghosh, K. Rajendran, Ranjan K. Nandy, Asish K. Mukhopadhyay, Mihir K. Bhattacharya, Utpala Mitra, Yoshifumi Takeda, G. Balakrish Nair, and Thandavarayan Ramamurthy
Table 2
Clinical characteristics of Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139 strain–infected patients with diarrhea, Kolkata, India
| Characteristic | Infection status, no. (%) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Single, n = 175 | Mixed, n = 106 | |
| Type of diarrhea | ||
| Watery | 122 (70.0) | 63 (59.4) |
| Loose with bloody mucus | 30 (17.1) | 25 (23.6) |
| Other |
23 (13.1) |
18 (17.0) |
| Dehydration status | ||
| Severe | 39 (22.3) | 18 (17.0) |
| Moderate |
136 (77.7) |
88 (83.0) |
| Age, y | ||
| >5 | 126 (72.0) | 75 (70.8) |
| ≤5 |
49 (28.0) |
31 (29.2) |
| Sex | ||
| M | 106 (60.6) | 64 (60.4) |
| F |
69 (39.4) |
42 (39.6) |
| Fever | ||
| Yes | 72 (41.1) | 39 (36.8) |
| No |
103 (58.9) |
67 (63.2) |
| Abdominal pain | ||
| Yes | 69 (39.4) | 44 (41.5) |
| No | 106 (60.6) | 62 (58.5) |
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
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