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Volume 25, Number 12—December 2019
Dispatch

Economic Effect of Confiscation of Cattle Viscera Infected with Cystic Echinococcosis, Huancayo Province, Peru

J. Raúl LucasComments to Author , Carmen A. Arias, Stephanie S. Balcázar-Nakamatsu, Alejandro P. Rodríguez, Karen A. Alroy, and Cesar M. Gavidia
Author affiliations: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru (J.R. Lucas, C.A. Arias, S.S. Balcázar-Nakamatsu, C.M. Gavidia); Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agraria, Junin, Peru (A.P. Rodríguez); Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (K.A. Alroy)

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Table 2

Prevalence of cystic echinococcosis among cattle in multivariate logistic regression model, by sex and 4-month period, Huancayo Province, Peru, September 2013–December 2014*

Characteristic Presence of CE†
Lung CE‡
Hepatic CE†
OR (95% CI)
p value OR (95% CI)
p value OR (95% CI)
p value
Sex
F Referent NA Referent NA Referent NA
M
0.73 (0.66–0.81)
0.00

0.75 (0.68–0.83)
0.00

0.73 (0.62–0.84)
0.00
Four-month period§
Sep–Dec 2013 2.1 (1.85–2.44) 0.00 2.1 (1.82–2.40) 0.00 1.0 (0.80–1.29) 0.89
Jan–Apr 2014 3.2 (2.73–3.69) 0.00 2.8 (2.73–3.20) 0.00 1.7 (1.35–2.15) 0.00
Sep–Dec 2014 1.2 (1.05–1.38)
0.00 0.9 (0.79–1.05)
0.21 2.6 (2.12–3.19)
0.00

*CE, cystic echinococcosis; NA, not applicable; OR, odds ratio.
†Pearson χ2 goodness-of-fit test value of p<0.05.
‡Pearson χ2 goodness-of-fit test value of p = 0.3845.
§Reference period is May–August 2014.

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