Lenildo de Moura*
1, Lilian Maria Garcia Bahia-Oliveira†
1, Marcelo Y. Wada*, Jeffrey L. Jones‡, Suely H. Tuboi*, Eduardo H. Carmo*, Walter Massa Ramalho*, Natal J. Camargo§, Ronaldo Trevisan§, Regina M.T. Graça¶, Alexandre J. da Silva‡, Iaci Moura‡, J.P. Dubey#, and Denise O. Garrett**
Author affiliations: *Ministério de Saúde, Brasília, Brasil; †Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; ‡Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; §Secretaria de Saúde do Estado do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil; ¶Laboratório Central de Saúde Pública, Curitiba, Brazil; #United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland; **Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Table 2
Risk for Toxoplasma gondii infection shown as odds ratios estimated with conditional backward elimination logistic regression, N = 376
| Variable |
Odds ratio |
Wald confidence limits
|
|
| Lower |
Upper |
p value* |
| Drinking water from reservoir A |
4.55 |
2.01 |
5.49 |
0.001 |
| Drinking >10 glasses of water per day |
3.29 |
1.46 |
4.46 |
0.001 |
| Having household water storage tank |
1.81 |
0.99 |
3.33 |
0.054 |
| Eating commercial ice cream |
4.55 |
2.01 |
5.49 |
0.001 |
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