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Volume 26, Number 4—April 2020
Dispatch

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Humans and Livestock, Pakistan, 2015–2017

Ali Zohaib, Muhammad Saqib, Muhammad A. Athar, Muhammad H. Hussain, Awais-ur-Rahman Sial, Muhammad H. Tayyab, Murrafa Batool, Halima Sadia, Zeeshan Taj, Usman Tahir, Muhammad Y. Jakhrani, Jawad Tayyab, Muhammad A. Kakar, Muhammad F. Shahid, Tahir Yaqub, Jingyuan Zhang, Qiaoli Wu, Fei Deng, Victor M. Corman, Shu Shen, Iahtasham Khan, and Zheng-Li ShiComments to Author 
Author affiliations: National University of Sciences & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan (A. Zohaib); Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China (A. Zohaib, J. Zhang, Q. Wu, F. Deng, S. Shen, Z.-L. Shi); University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan (M. Saqib, M.H. Tayyab, M. Batool); University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan (M.A. Athar); Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Muscat, Oman (M.H. Hussain); PMAS Aird Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan (A. Sial, J. Tayyab); Livestock and Dairy Development Department, Punjab, Pakistan (H. Sadia, U. Tahir); Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad (Z. Taj); Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Sakrand, Sindh, Pakistan (M.Y. Jakhrani); Livestock & Dairy Development Department Balochistan, Quetta, Pakistan (M.A. Kakar); University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan (M.F. Shahid, T. Yaqub, I. Khan); National Virus Resource Center, Wuhan (Q. Wu, F. Deng, S. Shen); Humboldt-University and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany (V.M. Corman); German Centre for Infection Research, Berlin (V.M. Corman)

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Table 1

Univariate analyses of 1,872 human samples positive for Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus by ELISA, Pakistan, 2017–2018

Category No. positive/no. tested Prevalence, % (95% CI) Odds ratio (95% CI) p value
Province <0.001
Punjab 25/930 2.7 (1.8–4.0) 2.6 (1.0–7.7)
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 6/128 4.7 (2.1–10.0) 4.6 (1.2–17.5)
Balochistan 14/247 5.7 (3.4–9.3) 5.6 (2.0–18.0)
Sindh
 6/567
 1.1 (0.5–2.3)
 1.0
Age, y 0.451
15–24 7/438 1.6 (0.8–3.3) 1.0
25–34 19/730 2.6 (1.7–4.0) 1.6 (0.7–4.7)
35–44 12/388 3.1 (1.8–5.4) 2.0 (0.7–6.0)
45–54 9/226 4.0 (2.1–7.5) 2.6 (0.8–8.2)
55–64 3/70 4.3 (1.4–12.5) 2.8 (0.5–12.4)
>65
1/20
 5.0 (0.7–28.2)
 3.2 (0.1–27.3)
Sex 0.832
F 28/1,055 2.7 (1.8–3.8) 1.0
M
 23/817
 2.8 (1.9–4.2)
 1.1 (0.6–1.9)
Occupation 0.006
Livestock farmer 49/1,523 3.2 (2.4–4.2) 5.8 (1.5–49.2)
General population 2/349 0.6 (0.1–2.3) 1.0

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