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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 4

Factors associated with risk for acute Toxoplasma gondii infection among children <18 years of age, Erechim, Brazil, 2003–2004, N=106 (univariate factors with p<0.05)*

Factor No. with factor/no. patients† (%) No. with factor/no. controls† (%) OR (95% CI) p value
Born in Erechim or upper Uruguay 32/58 (55.2) 46/48 (95.8) 0.05 (0.01–0.24) <0.0001
Cat at least occasionally catches own food 25/26 (96.2) 16/21 (76.2) 7.81 (0.83–73.15) 0.04
Feed cat raw food 15/26 (57.7) 6/21 (28.6) 3.41 (1.00–11.61) 0.04
Work in yard >1×/wk 35/43 (81.4) 18/32 (56.3) 3.40 (1.21–9.61) 0.02
Wear gloves when working in yard 0/49 6/35 (17.1) 0.05 (logit) (0.00–0.84) 0.003
Eat cured, dried, or smoked meat given by friend or relative 20/58 (34.5) 7/48 (14.6) 3.08 (1.17–8.11) 0.02
Eat frozen lamb 12/58 (20.7) 3/48 (6.3) 3.91 (1.03–14.80) 0.03
Eat rare meat 33/58 (56.9) 17/48 (35.4) 2.41 (1.10–5.29) 0.03
Of those that eat rare meat, eat rare pork 10/32 (31.3) 0/17 16.33 (logit) (0.89–298.33) 0.01
Male sex 45/58 (77.6) 20/48 (41.7) 4.84 (2.09–11.26) 0.0002

*OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.
†Totals vary because some questions applied to a subset of participants and because response rates varied.

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