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Volume 12, Number 9—September 2006
Research

Risk Factors for Buruli Ulcer, Benin

Martine Debacker*, Françoise Portaels*, Julia Aguiar†, Christian Steunou†, Claude Zinsou†, Wayne Meyers‡, and Michèle Dramaix§Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium; †Centre Sanitaire et Nutritionnel Gbemoten, Zagnanado, Benin; ‡Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC, USA; §Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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Table 1

Distribution of cases of Buruli ulcer and controls by age, Centre Sanitaire et Nutritionnel Gbemoten, Zou, Benin*

Age group, y Cases (%) Controls (%) Total Crude OR (95% CI) p value
5–9 432 (21.3) 38 (3.1) 470 6.69 (2.86–16.62) <0.001
10–14 405 (19.9) 59 (4.8) 464 4.4 (1.77–9.24) 0.002
15–19 223 (11.0) 117 (9.6) 340 1.12 (0.5–2.53) NS
20–24 163 (8.0) 140 (11.5) 303 0.68 (0.3–1.54) NS
25–29 149 (7.3) 157 (12.9) 306 0.56 (0.25–1.26) NS
30–34 84 (4.1) 140 (11.5) 224 0.35 (0.15–0.81) 0.010
35–39 72 (3.5) 136 (11.1) 208 0.31 (0.14–0.72) 0.0046
40–44 44 (2.2) 98 (8.0) 142 0.26 (0.11–0.62) 0.002
45–49 53 (2.6) 81 (6.6) 134 0.38 (0.16–0.9) 0.025
50–54 68 (3.3) 60 (4.9) 128 0.67 (0.28–1.57) NS
55–59 66 (3.2) 45 (3.7) 111 0.86 (0.36–2.06) NS
60–64 105 (5.2) 52 (4.3) 157 1.19 (0.51–2.78) NS
65–69 65 (3.2) 38 (3.1) 103 1.01 (0.42–2.42) NS
70–74 50 (2.5) 32 (2.6) 82 0.92 (0.37–2.26) NS
75–79 36 (1.8) 17 (1.4) 53 1.25 (0.47–3.29) NS
>80 17 (0.8) 10 (0.8) 27 1
Subtotal 2,032 1,220 3,252
Missing 367 224 591
Total 2,399 1,444 3,843

*OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; NS, not significant.

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