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Volume 28, Number 8—August 2022

Research

Dog Ownership and Risk for Alveolar Echinococcosis, Germany

Julian Schmidberger1Comments to Author , Janne Uhlenbruck1, Patrycja Schlingeloff, Pavlo Maksimov, Franz J. Conraths, Benjamin Mayer, and Wolfgang Kratzer
Author affiliations: University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany (J. Schmidberger, J. Uhlenbruck, P. Schlingeloff, W. Kratzer); Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany (P. Maksimov, F.J. Conraths); Institute for Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm (B. Mayer)

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Table 1

Characteristics of 257 dog owners with alveolar echinococcosis and healthy controls in case–control study of dog ownership and human risk for alveolar echinococcosis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, January 2019–February 2020*

Characteristic
 Case-patients, n = 43
 Controls, n = 214
 p value
Sex, no. (%) 0.0011
F 26 (60.47%) 177 (82.71%)
M
 17 (39.53%)
 37 (17.29%)
Age, y, no. (%) <0.0001
18–30 8 (18.60%) 56 (26.17%)
31–50 13 (30.23%) 71 (33.18%)
51–70 15 (34.88%) 80 (37.38%)
>70
 7 (16.28%)
 7 (3.27%)
Age, y 0.0347
Mean ± SD 50.09 ± 17.62 44.23 ± 15.23
Median (range)
 51.00 (18.00–79.00)
 44.00 (19.00–88.00)
Time lived in Baden-Württemberg, y 0.0839
5–20 2 (4.65%) 32 (14.95%)
>20
 41 (95.35%)
 182 (85.05%)
Dogs owned, no. (%) 0.0546
1 32 (74.42) 122 (57.01)
2 6 (13.95) 56 (26.17)
3 2 (4.65) 22 (10.28)
>3
 3 (6.98)
 14 (6.54)
Regular contact with dogs, y, no. (%) 0.2629
0–5 4 (9.30) 16 (7.48)
6–10 2 (4.65) 34 (15.89)
11–20 10 (23.26) 48 (22.43)
>20
 27 (62.79)
 116 (54.21)
*Boldface indicates significance (p<0.05).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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