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Risk factors for developing leptospirosis (univariate analysis).
| Risk | Case patients exposed n (%) |
Healthy individuals n (%) |
RR | p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wounds | 3 (100) | 20 (25) | n.d. | 0.02 |
| Swallowing Water | 3 (100) | 100 (95) | n.d. | 0.7 |
| Eye Protection | 5 (100) | 122 (90) | n.d. | 1 |
| Traveling | 2 (40) | 58 (44) | 0.9 | 1 |
| Gardening | 0 (0) | 31 (23) | n.d. | 0.6 |
| Farming | 0 (0) | 7 (5) | n.d. | 1 |
| Contact to animals | 1 (20) | 5 (4) | 5.5 | 0.2 |
| Male sex | 3 (60) | 113 (84) | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Previous freshwater contact | 3 (75) | 77 (58) | 2.2 | 0.6 |
n.d.: not defined.
