Fecal carriage of extended spectrum beta-lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae among HIV infected children at the University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital Gondar, Ethiopia

Bayleyegn, Biruk; Fisaha, Roman; Kasew, Desie

doi:10.1186/s12981-021-00347-x

Table 1 The Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of HIV infected children at the University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, 2020

From: Fecal carriage of extended spectrum beta-lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae among HIV infected children at the University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital Gondar, Ethiopia

Variable	Category	Frequency (N)	Percent (%)
Gender of children	Male	77	47.8
Gender of children	Female	84	52.2
Age (years) of children	Less than or equal to10	37	23.0
Age (years) of children	11 and above	124	77.0
Residence	Urban	140	87.0
Residence	Rural	21	13.0
Educational status of children	No formal education	12	7.5
	Primary school	130	80.7
	Secondary school	19	11.8
Family income per month	Less than 1000	77	47.8
	1000–2000	54	33.5
	2000 birr and above	30	18.6
Family size	Less than or equal to 4	113	70.2
Family size	5 and above	48	29.2
Family occupation	Privately employed	15	9.3
	Government worker	43	26.7
	Merchant	49	30.4
	House wife	43	26.7
	Other*	11	6.8
Family educational status	No formal education	55	34.2
	Primary school	49	30.4
	Secondary and above	57	35.4
HIV status of caregiver	Positive	134	83.2
	Negative	17	10.6
	Not known	10	6.2
WHO stage of HIV	I	155	96.3
WHO stage of HIV	II and late stage	6	3.7
WAZ	Under weight	11	6.8
WAZ	Normal	150	93.2
HAZ	Stunted	75	46.6
HAZ	Normal	86	53.4
BAZ	Wasted	30	18.6
BAZ	Normal	131	81.4
Opportunistic infections	Yes	23	14.3
Opportunistic infections	No	138	85.7
Presence of fever	Yes	20	12.4
Presence of fever	No	141	87.6
History of antibiotic use	Yes	15	9.3
History of antibiotic use	No	146	90.7
Presence of diarrhea	Yes	13	8.1
Presence of diarrhea	No	148	91.9
Viral load	Not detected	61	37.9
	Less than or equal to 1000 copies /ml	44	27.3
	Greater than 1000 copies/ml	56	34.8
HAART experience	Less than 6 months	9	5.6
	6–12 months	7	4.3
	12 months and above	145	90.1
HAART type	AZT based	55	34.1
	TDF based	61	37.9
	ABC based	45	28.0
Eating uncooked products	Yes	110	68.3
Eating uncooked products	No	51	31.7
Eating row vegetable	Yes	114	70.8
Eating row vegetable	No	47	29.2
Cytopenia	Cytopenia	54	33.5
Cytopenia	Normal	102	63.4

Other*: farmers, daily manual workers, those without work
WAZ: Weight-for-age; HAZ: Height-for-age; BAZ: Weight-for-Height

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