Table 2.
Unadjusted and adjusted multiple linear regression coefficients modeling primary attack rate as a function of potential NoV outbreak risk factors.
| Variable | Unadjusted* | n | Adjusted, no multiple transmission routes (n=233) |
Adjusted, with multiple transmission routes (n=339) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beta | Std Error | P-value | Beta | Std Error | P-value | Beta | Std Error | P-value | ||
| Intercept | 1470.05 | 913.86 | 0.11 | 257.92 | 754.32 | 0.73 | ||||
| Transmission | 309 | |||||||||
| Foodborne | 29.48† | 4.11 | <0.0001 | 10.53 | 7.20 | 0.15 | 5.48 | 3.99 | 0.17 | |
| Waterborne | 18.18† | 5.76 | <0.01 | 13.40 | 8.22 | 0.10 | 7.61 | 5.38 | 0.16 | |
| Environmental | 7.63 | 12.22 | 0.53 | 11.76 | 15.66 | 0.45 | −3.38 | 5.29 | 0.52 | |
| Person-to-Person | Ref. | - | - | Ref. | - | - | Ref. | - | - | |
| Setting | 469 | |||||||||
| Foodservice | 22.07† | 4.35 | <0.0001 | 14.23 | 8.37 | 0.09 | 14.17† | 5.96 | 0.02 | |
| Healthcare | −10.93† | 4.62 | 0.02 | 0.68 | 9.35 | 0.94 | −3.11 | 6.58 | 0.64 | |
| Leisure | 0.72 | 4.88 | 0.88 | −1.34 | 8.84 | 0.88 | −3.01 | 5.92 | 0.61 | |
| Other | 9.77 | 5.39 | 0.07 | −2.61 | 9.28 | 0.78 | −0.42 | 6.79 | 0.95 | |
| School/Daycare | Ref. | - | - | Ref. | - | - | Ref. | - | - | |
| Outbreak Year | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.31 | 508 | −0.72 | 0.46 | 0.12 | −0.11 | 0.38 | 0.76 |
| Season | 475 | |||||||||
| Winter | 2.75 | 3.89 | 0.48 | 6.03 | 5.08 | 0.24 | 9.90† | 3.56 | <0.01 | |
| Spring | 5.74 | 4.34 | 0.19 | 0.19 | 5.51 | 0.97 | 7.24 | 4.13 | 0.08 | |
| Summer | −0.47 | 5.09 | 0.93 | −1.31 | 5.79 | 0.82 | 2.10 | 4.22 | 0.62 | |
| Fall | Ref. | - | - | Ref. | - | - | Ref. | - | - | |
| Action to stop transmission | 508 | |||||||||
| Described in article | −8.27† | 3.45 | 0.02 | −6.53 | 4.46 | 0.14 | 2.61 | 3.16 | 0.41 | |
| Not described | Ref. | - | - | Ref. | - | - | Ref. | - | - | |
| Genogroup | 430 | |||||||||
| Genogroup II | −2.83 | 4.26 | 0.51 | 0.33 | 5.35 | 0.95 | −3.69 | 4.24 | 0.39 | |
| Both GI and GII | 11.17† | 5.34 | 0.04 | 5.63 | 6.04 | 0.35 | −0.21 | 4.95 | 0.97 | |
| Genogroup I | Ref. | - | - | Ref. | - | - | Ref. | - | - | |
| Genogroup, by cluster‡ | 362 | |||||||||
| GII non cluster 4 | 0.97 | 4.27 | 0.82 | |||||||
| GII cluster 4 | −16.16† | 4.27 | 0.0002 | |||||||
| Both GI and GII | 7.66 | 5.29 | 0.15 | |||||||
| GI | Ref. | - | - | |||||||
| Adjusted R2 | 0.14 | 0.15 | ||||||||
Unadjusted analyses excluded outbreaks with multiple modes of transmission.
p < 0.05.
GII outbreaks with no cluster data were excluded from unadjusted model.