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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Travel Med. 2011 Feb 7;18(2):121–125. doi: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2010.00488.x

Table 3.

Multiple logistic regression analysis of risk factors for travelers’ according to E. coli pathotypes identified.

Odds Ratios (95% CI)
Diarrhea due
to all causes		 ETEC EAEC EPEC STEC
Gender 0.96 1.0
(0.4–2.5)		 1.1
(0.4–2.5)		 1.0
(0.9–1.0)		 0.51
Age (years) 0.98 0.98 0.96 0.9**
(0.92–0.98)		 0.99
Length of Stay
(days) 		1.0*
(1.0–1.05)		 0.99 1.0
(0.9–1.0)		 1.0
(0.9–1.0)		 1.0
(0.9–1.0)
Race 0.98 1.01
(0.6–1.4)		 0.87 0.98 0.96
Ethnicity 0.99 0.83 2.3
(0.7–7.6)		 2.3
(0.7–7.6)		 1.0
(0.2–4.2)
Prior travel 0.92 1.4
(0.6–3.5)		 0.9 0.8 1.1
(0.4–3.1)
Season (Winter
or Summer) 		1.6*
(0.98–2.6)		 5.1*
(1.4–18.4)		 2.2
(0.7–6.8)		 2.4
(0.8–7.4)		 2.6
(0.7–9.6)
*

p ≤ 0.05;

**

p ≤ 0.01