Volume 11, Number 6—June 2005
Research
pVir and Bloody Diarrhea in Campylobacter jejuni Enteritis
Dobryan M. Tracz*, Monika Keelan*†, Jasmine Ahmed-Bentley‡, Amera Gibreel*, Kinga Kowalewska-Grochowska*‡, and Diane E. Taylor*
Table 2
Association of pVir plasmid with clinical symptoms in patients with Campylobacter jejuni gastroenteritis, Alberta, Canada, 1999–2002
| pVir | Clinical symptom (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pain | Diarrhea | Vomiting | Blood in stool | Fever | Hospitalization | Duration <7 days (%) | |
| Present (n = 18)* | 83 (n = 18) | 100 (n = 18) | 28 (n = 15) | 53† (n = 17) | 59 (n = 17) | 22 (n = 18) | 77 (n = 14) |
| Absent (n = 86) | 80 (n = 72) | 99 (n = 85) | 30 (n = 73) | 21 (n = 76) | 64 (n = 64) | 17 (n = 86) | 82 (n = 68) |
*Samples sizes (n) for each clinical symptom differ as symptoms were not known for each patient.
†p<0.05, presence vs. absence of pVir.
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