Volume 17, Number 4—April 2011
Research
Diarrheagenic Pathogens in Polymicrobial Infections
Table 2
Pathogens | Covariate |
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Age | Season | Gender | Residence | Religion | After adjusting for effects | |
Vibrio cholerae/rotavirus |
Confounder |
Interaction |
No effect |
No effect |
No effect |
Significant except for age strata 5–15 y |
V. cholerae/adenovirus |
Confounder |
No effect |
No effect |
No effect |
No effect |
Significant when regression adjusted for age and season (OR 0.36, 95% CI 0.21–0.64) |
V. cholerae/Cryptosporidium spp. |
Confounder |
Confounder |
Interaction |
No effect |
No effect |
Significant for female, not male patients; small stratified cell sizes |
V. cholerae/Giardia lamblia |
Interaction |
Confounder |
No effect |
Interaction |
No effect |
Significant for some age categories |
V. cholerae/Shigella spp. |
Interaction |
No effect |
No effect |
No effect |
No effect |
Significant for ages >2 y and all seasons |
V. cholerae/ETEC |
No effect |
Interaction |
No effect |
No effect |
No effect |
Significant for summer and monsoon seasons |
Rotavirus/adenovirus |
Interaction |
Interaction |
No effect |
No effect |
No effect |
Significant for all seasons and all age strata except <1 y |
Rotavirus/Cryptosporidium spp. |
Confounder |
Confounder |
No effect |
No effect |
No effect |
Significant when regression adjusted for age and season (OR 1.64, 95% CI 1.11–2.41) |
Rotavirus/EAEC |
Confounder |
No effect |
No effect |
No effect |
Interaction |
Not significant when regression adjusted for age and season (OR 1.38, 95% CI 0.94–2.01); significant for age strata 2–5 y; all seasons significant |
Rotavirus/Shigella spp. | Confounder | Confounder | No effect | No effect | No effect | Significant when regression adjusted for age and season (OR 0.24, 95% CI 0.14–0.44) |
*Interaction identified using Breslow-Day test for homogeneity, p<0.05. Considered statistically significant at p<0.05. OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; ETEC, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli; EAEC, enteroaggregative E. coli.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
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