| Type of DEC | N (%) isolated E. coli in cases and controls | OR | Fisher’s exact test p-value | |
| E. coli isolated from diarrheic children (n= 53) | E. coli isolated from healthy children (n = 10) | |||
| Mono-detection | 36 (67.9) | 1 (10.0) | 16.76 | 0.001 |
| EAEC | 2 (3.8) | 0 (0.0) | NA | NA |
| EHEC | 15 (28.3) | 1 (10.0) | 3.18 | 0.4 |
| EPEC | 4 (7.5) | 0 (0.0) | NA | NA |
| ETEC | 15 (28.3) | 0 (0.0) | NA | NA |
| EIEC | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | NA | NA |
| STEC | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | NA | NA |
| Shigella ipaH | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | NA | NA |
| Co-detection | 5 (9.4) | 1 (10.0) | 1.36 | 1 |
| ETEC/EHEC | 4 (7.5) | 1 (10.0) | 0.54 | 0.5 |
| EAEC/ETEC | 1 (1.9) | 0 (0.0) | NA | NA |