Volume 15, Number 12—December 2009
Dispatch
Cross-sectional Survey of Hantavirus Infection, Brazil
Jean E. Limongi
, Fabíola C. da Costa, Rogério M.C. Pinto, Renata C. de Oliveira, Camila Bragagnolo, Elba R.S. Lemos, Márcia B.C. de Paula, Adalberto A. Pajuaba Neto, and Marcelo S. Ferreira
, Fabíola C. da Costa, Rogério M.C. Pinto, Renata C. de Oliveira, Camila Bragagnolo, Elba R.S. Lemos, Márcia B.C. de Paula, Adalberto A. Pajuaba Neto, and Marcelo S. FerreiraTable 1
Relationship between independent variables and antibody to hantaviruses in the municipality of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2006
| Variable | Rural |
Periurban |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. antibody positive (no. tested) | p value* | No. antibody positive (no. tested) | p value* | ||
| Sex | |||||
| M | 8 (130) | 0.03 | 1 (84) | 0.44 | |
| F |
0 (70) |
3 (116) |
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| Age, y | |||||
| 12–39 | 0 (82) | 0.01 | 0 (112) | 0.04 | |
| >39 |
8 (118) |
4 (88) |
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| Risk activity or labor† | |||||
| No activity | 0 (79) | 0.02 | 2 (92) | 0.63 | |
| With activity |
8 (121) |
2 (108) |
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| Exposure to rodents | |||||
| Yes | 8 (168) | 0.24 | 3 (152) | 0.67 | |
| No | 0 (32) | 1 (48) | |||
*Determined by using 2-tailed Fisher exact test.
†Clearing land, farming, working in pastures or cellars, or cleaning sheds barns, or other outbuildings.
