Volume 15, Number 12—December 2009
Dispatch
Human Trichinosis after Consumption of Soft-Shelled Turtles, Taiwan
Yi-Chun Lo, Chien-Ching Hung, Ching-Shih Lai, Zhiliang Wu, Isao Nagano, Takuya Maeda, Yuzo Takahashi, Chan-Hsien Chiu, and Donald Dah-Shyong Jiang
Table 2
Results of univariate analyses of selected food items in an outbreak of trichinosis, Taiwan, 2008*
| Ingested food items | Case (n = 8) |
Control (n = 15) |
OR (95% CI)† | p value‡ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ate | Did not eat | Ate | Did not eat | ||||
| Soft-shelled turtles | |||||||
| Raw meat | 8 | 0 | 5 | 10 | – | 0.003 | |
| Fried meat | 6 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 0.21 (0.003–5.22) | 0.269 | |
| Raw liver | 7 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 6.13 (0.51–314.71) | 0.176 | |
| Fresh blood | 6 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 3.43 (0.40–43.28) | 0.379 | |
| Raw eggs | 7 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 3.50 (0.28–188.78) | 0.369 | |
| Raw intestines | 3 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 3.90 (0.32–56.52) | 0.297 | |
| Cooked soup | 7 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 1.08 (0.05–72.50) | 1.000 | |
| Rice with cooked eel | 7 | 1 | 15 | 0 | – | 0.348 | |
| Raw abalone | 6 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 0.75 (0.07–11.43) | 1.000 | |
*OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.
†Significant at α = 0.05.
‡By Fisher exact test.
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