itional study on 175 hospitalized patients reported that 19.4% of patients had diarrhea, with an average of 6 episodes per day, with symptom duration ranging from 1 to 4 days.74 Diarrhea as the only presenting symptom in the absence of upper respiratory symptoms In the 43 studies that informed our analysis on the prevalence of diarrhea, we extracted information on whether diarrhea was reporte