Fig 1.
Flow diagram depicting deposition of strains for this study.
For each available tEPEC strain from a LI, the closest matching strain from a NSI in a child of the same gender from the same location and from an AI in a child of the same gender from the same location were selected. When no matching tEPEC strain was available, an aEPEC strain with the same constraints was chosen. The same NSI strain served as the control for two LI strains and the same AI strain served as a control for two different LI strains.
Table 1.
Results of propensity matching of strains from lethal infections (LIs), non-lethal symptomatic infections (NSIs), and asymptomatic infections (Ais).
Table 2.
Numbers of gene clusters significantly associated with clinical outcome.