Table 2.
Independent associations with TNS bacteraemia
| Clinical association |
Group | No. | NTS (%) bacteraemia |
Crude OR (95%CI) |
Adjusted OR (95%CI) |
| Age | < 2 yrs | 201 | 13 (6.5%) | 6.85 (2.2–22.5) | 4.98 (1.69–14.7) |
| (years) | ≥ 2 yrs | 500 | 5 (1.0%) | 1 | p=0.002# |
| Anaemia | ≤15% | 203 | 13 (6.4%) | 6.75 (2.2–22.2) | 3.86 (1.29–11.5) |
| (PCV) | >15% | 498 | 5 (1.0%) | 1 | p=0.01 |
| Blantyre | > 2 | 98 | 8 (8.2%) | 5.27 (1.8–15.1) | 2.4 (0.7–1.8) |
| Coma Score | ≤ 2 | 603 | 10 (1.7%) | 1 | p=0.16 |
| Blood glucose | ≤ 2.2 | 122 | 10 (8.2%) | 6.37 (2.2–18.3) | 4.7 (1.7–12.7) |
| (mmol/l) | >2.2 | 579 | 8 (1.4%) | 1 | p=0.002 |
| Weight-for | ≤ −2 | 322 | 11 (3.4%) | 1.88 (0.7–5.5) | 1.49 (0.6–3.9) |
| -age Z score | > −2 | 379 | 7 (1.8%) | 1 | p=0.4 |
#
p values refer to the likelihood ratio test