Table 1 Characteristics of appropriate studies and distribution of Serogroups of Shigella reviewed from Africa, Asia and South America from 2001 to 2014
First author | Country | Pub. year | Setting | Age group | Sample sources | Sample size | Shig. Pos. (N) | Shigella Serogroups Pos. N (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A | B | C | D | ||||||||
Mache [8] | Ethiopia | 2001 | Hosp & HC | Children | Stool | 384 | 77 | 23 (29.9) | 31 (40.3) | 15 (19.5) | 8 (10.4) |
Brooks [9] | Kenya | 2003 | Laboratory | All ages | Stool | 2374 | 198 | 80 (40.4) | 97 (49) | 13 (6.6) | 8 (4) |
Abu-Elyazeed [10] | Egypt | 2004 | Surveillance | Children | Stool | 696 | 131 | 74 (56.5) | 30 (22.9) | 26 (19.8) | 1 (0.8) |
Chompook [18] | Thailand | 2005 | Population | All ages | Stool | 6536 | 146 | – | 24 (16.4) | – | 122 (83.6) |
Wang [19] | China | 2005 | Community | All ages | Stool | 10,105 | 331 | – | 306 (93) | – | 25 (7) |
Bhattacharya [20] | Nepal | 2005 | Hospital | All ages | Stool | 1396 | 53 | 39 (73.6) | 12 (22.6) | 2 (3.8) | – |
Fulla [21] | Chile | 2005 | HC | Children | Stool | 4080 | 178 | – | 77 (43.3) | – | 101 (56.7) |
Mashouf [22] | Iran | 2006 | Hospital | Children | Stool | 1686 | 166 | 56 (33.7) | 67 (40.3) | 25 (15) | 18 (11) |
Wilson [23] | Nepal | 2006 | Hospital | All ages | Stool | 770 | 83 | 12 (14.5) | 56 (67.5) | 5 (6.0) | 10 (12) |
Nguyen [24] | Vietnam | 2006 | Hospital | All ages | Stool | 587 | 28 | – | 7 (25) | 1 (3.6) | 20 (71.4) |
Naik [11] | Eritrea | 2006 | CHL | Children | Stool | 2420 | 84 | 28 (33.3) | 54 (64.3) | – | 2 (2.4) |
Ghaemi [25] | Iran | 2007 | Hospital | Children | Stool | 634 | 56 | 10 (18) | 12(22) | 3 (5) | 31 (55) |
Opintan and Newman [12] | Ghana | 2007 | Hospital | All ages | Stool | 594 | 24 | 4 (16.7) | 17 (70.8) | 2 (8.3) | 1 (4.2) |
Jafari [26] | Iran | 2008 | Hospital | Children | Stool | 1120 | 157 | 13 (8) | 48 (31) | 8 (5) | 88 (56) |
Orrett [30] | Trinidad | 2008 | Hospital | All ages | Stool | 5187 | 392 | 7 (1.8) | 75 (19.1) | 16 (4.1) | 294 (75) |
Tiruneh [6] | Ethiopia | 2009 | Hospital | All ages | Stool | 1200 | 90 | 9 (10) | 65 (72.2) | 8 (8.9) | 8 (8.9) |
Sherchand [15] | Nepal | 2009 | Hospital | Children | Stool | 440 | 21 | 14 (66.7) | 2 (9.5) | 5 (23.8) | – |
Zafar [16] | Pakistan | 2009 | Community | All ages | Stool | 8155 | 394 | 37 (9) | 242 (62) | 43 (11) | 72 (18) |
Pourakbari [17] | Iran | 2010 | Community | All ages | Stool | 15,255 | 682 | 34 (5) | 327 (48) | 14 (2) | 307(45) |
Xia [27] | China | 2011 | Hospital | All ages | Stool | 3531 | 467 | – | 354 (76) | – | 113(24) |
Nunes [31] | Brazil | 2012 | Hospital | children | Stool | 250 | 26 | – | 21 (80.8) | – | 5 (19.2) |
Khan [28] | Nepal | 2013 | Hospital | All ages | Stool | 507 | 69 | 19 (27) | 29 (42) | 15 (22) | 6 (9) |
Mengstu [13] | Ethiopia | 2014 | HC | All ages | Stool | 382 | 17 | 3 (17.6) | 5 (29.4) | 3(16.7) | 6(35.3) |
Mulatu [14] | Ethiopia | 2014 | Hospital | Children | Stool | 158 | 11 | – | 11 (100) | – | – |
Kumar [29] | India | 2014 | Hospital | All ages | Stool | 1402 | 146 | 3 (2.1) | 98 (67.1) | 8 (5.4) | 37 (25.3) |
Total | 69,849 | 4027 (5.8) | 463 (11.5) | 2067 (51.3) | 212 (5.3) | 1249 (33.2) | |||||