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Volume 12, Number 4—April 2006
Research

Recently Acquired Toxoplasma gondii Infection, Brazil

Jeffrey L. Jones*Comments to Author , Cristina Muccioli†, Rubens Belfort†, Gary N. Holland‡, Jacquelin M. Roberts*, and Claudio Silveira§
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Federal University of São Paulo Paulista School of Medicine, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; ‡David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA; §Clinica Silveira, Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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Table 2

Factors associated with risk for acute Toxoplasma gondii infection, Erechim, Brazil, 2003–2004, N=241 (univariate factors shown with p<0.05)*

Factor No. with factor/no. patients† (%) No. with factor/no. controls† (%) OR (95% CI) p value
Have a garden (excludes those living on farms) 59/69 (85.5) 41/61 (67.2) 2.88 (1.22–6.78) 0.01
Born in Erechim or upper Uruguay 78/130 (60.0) 98/110 (89.1) 0.18 (0.09–0.37) <0.0001
Work in garden 57/130 (43.9) 30/110 (27.3) 2.08 (1.21–3.59) 0.008
Eat cured, dried, or smoked meat given by friend or relative 60/130 (46.2) 33/110 (30.0) 2.00 (1.17–3.41) 0.01
Eat rare meat 73/131 (55.7) 47/110 (42.7) 1.69 (1.01–2.81) 0.045
Of those that eat raw meat, eat raw beef 18/31 (58.1) 14/16 (87.5) 0.20 (0.04–1.02) 0.042‡
Of those that eat raw meat, eat raw ground beef 11/31 (35.5) 12/16 (75.0) 0.18 (0.05–0.71) 0.01
Of those that eat raw meat, eat raw ground chicken 2/30 (6.7) 5/15 (33.3) 0.14 (0.02–0.86) 0.02
Eat frozen lamb 37/131 (28.2) 19/110 (17.3) 1.89 (1.01–3.52) 0.045
Male sex 72/131 (55.0) 42/110 (38.2) 1.98 (1.18–3.31) 0.01
Work in yard >1×/wk 65/90 (72.2) 35/71 (49.3) 2.67 (1.39–5.15) 0.003

*OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.
†Totals vary because some questions applied to a subset of participants and because response rates varied.
‡Exact method, OR 0.20, 95% CI 0.02–1.14, p = 0.078.

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