Research Article
The Impact of Age and Pathogens Type on the Gut Microbiota in Infants with Diarrhea in Dalian, China
Table 1
The basic clinical information on healthy infants and infants with diarrhea.
| Characteristic | Healthy controls | Diarrheic infants |
| Number of samples | — | 37 | 42 | Gender | Male | 24 (64.9%) | 22 (52.4%) | Female | 13 (35.1%) | 20 (47.6%) |
| Age | 0–120 (days) | 20 (54.1%) | 8 (19.0%) | 120–180 (days) | 17 (45.9%) | 7 (16.7%) | 180–270 (days) | 0 | 8 (19.0%) | 270–360 (days) | 0 | 19 (45.2%) |
| Pathogen | S | 0 | 14 (32.3%) | SA | 0 | 8 (19.0%) | S.SA | 0 | 11 (26.2%) | Others | 0 | 9 (21.4%) |
| Rash | — | 0 | 26 (61.9%) |
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