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Volume 18, Number 11—November 2012
Dispatch

Susceptibility of Children to Sapovirus Infections, Nicaragua, 2005–2006

Filemón Bucardo1, Beatrice Carlsson1, Johan Nordgren, Göran Larson, Patricia Blandon, Samuel Vilchez, and Lennart SvenssonComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of León, León, Nicaragua (F. Bucardo, P. Blandon, S. Vilchez); Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden (F. Bucardo, B. Carlsson, J. Nordgren, L. Svensson); and University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden (G. Larson)

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Table 1

Epidemiologic profile of SaV infections, León, Nicaragua, 2005–2006*

Characteristic Symptomatic, n = 205
Asymptomatic, n = 87
Total No. (%) SaV strains OR Total No. (%) SaV strains OR
Setting

Community

 160 20 (12) 0.9 87 8 (9)

Hospital

 45 5 (11) 0

Both

 205 25 (12) 87 8 (9)
Patient sex

M

 125 14 (11) 0.8 43 6 (14) 3.405†

F

 80 11 (14) 44 2 (5)
Patient age, mo

≤6

 36 5 (14) 1.2 11 2 (18) 2.6‡

7–12

 57 12 (21) 2.8§ 15 2 (13) 1.7

13–24

 67 7 (10) 0.8 48 4 (8) 0.8

25– 60

 45 1 (2) 0.1 13 0 (0) NA

*SaV, sapovirus; OR, odds ratio; NA, not applicable.
†Fisher test, 95%, CI, p = 0.15.
‡Fisher test, 95%, CI, p = 0.26.
§Fisher test, 95%, CI, p = 0.02.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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