Prevalence of Virulence Genes Associated with Diarrheagenic Pathotypes of Escherichia coli Isolates from Water, Sediment, Fish, and Crab in Aby Lagoon, Côte d’Ivoire

Table 2

Distribution of E. coli strains.

	Source				Total
	Water	Sediment	Fish	Crab
Number of strains	62	27	13	11	113
Pathogenic strains	42 (68%)	19 (70%)	0 (0)	1 (9%)	62 (55%)
Nonpathogenic strains	20 (32%)	8 (30%)	13 (100%)	10 (91%)	51 (45%)