Etiological agent | No. of isolates | Percentage of isolation % (678 isolates) |
Bacteria | ||
Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) | 314 | 46.3 |
Salmonella species | 71 | 10.4 |
Shigella species | 29 | 4.2 |
Vibrio cholera O1 | 25 | 3.6 |
Aeromonas species | 10 | 1.4 |
Unusual bacterial pathogens | ||
Vibrio fluvialis | 01 | 0.1 |
Moraxella osloensis | 01 | 0.1 |
Elizabethkingia meningoseptica | 01 | 0.1 |
Comomonas testosterone | 01 | 0.1 |
Virus | ||
Rotavirus | 59 | 8.7 |
Parasites | ||
Cryptosporidium parvum | 08 | 1.1 |
Isospora belli | 08 | 1.1 |
Strongyloides stercoralis | 08 | 1.1 |
Ascaris lumbricoides | 04 | 0.5 |
Entamoeba species | 03 | 0.4 |
Giardia species | 02 | 0.2 |
Hookworm | 03 | 0.4 |
Taenia species | 02 | 0.2 |
Fasciolopsis buski | 01 | 0.1 |
Fungi | ||
Candida species | 126 | 18.5 |
Trichosporon species | 01 | 0.1 |