Volume 14, Number 1—January 2008
Research
Short- and Long-term Effects of Bacterial Gastrointestinal Infections
Table 1
Distribution of infectious agents, age and sex for 101,855 study participants, Sweden, 1997−2004
Characteristic | Nontyphoid Salmonella spp. | Campylobacter spp. | Shigella spp. | EHEC* | Yersinia spp. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. participants | |||||
Female | 17,524 | 27,067 | 2,145 | 451 | 2,390 |
Male | 17,140 | 30,358 | 1,668 | 369 | 2,743 |
Mean age, y (range) | |||||
Female | 37 (0−100) | 37 (0−99) | 33 (1−89) | 25 (0−98) | 28 (0−95) |
Male | 36 (0−97) | 37 (0−98) | 33 (0−83) | 19 (0−85) | 27 (0−94) |
*EHEC, enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli.