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. 2012 Dec 15;55(Suppl 4):S246–S253. doi: 10.1093/cid/cis788

Table 2.

Crude and Adjusted Attributable Fraction and Attributable Number of Cases in First 2 Years of the Global Enteric Multicenter Study: India, Ages 12–23 Months (364 Cases, 374 Controls)

Pathogen Cases With Pathogen Unadjusted Analysis
Adjusted Analysis
ORa P Valueb AF Attributable Cases ORa P Valueb AF Attributable Cases
Rotavirus 104 22.5 <.0001 0.273 99 36.4 <.0001 0.278 101
Shigella 30 11.4 .0003 0.075 27 38.9 <.0001 0.080 29
ETEC LT/ST or ST 34 2.6 .004 0.057 21 4.3 .0006 0.072 26
Cryptosporidium 45 1.7 .031 0.052 19 2.4 .006 0.073 26
Vibrio cholerae O1 19 8.8 .002 0.046 17 9.1 .002 0.046 17
Adenovirus 40/41 18 6.0 .003 0.041 15 9.5 .002 0.044 16
Entamoeba histolytica 7 3.0 .15 0.013 5 10.3 .038 0.017 6

Abbreviations: AF, attributable fraction; ETEC, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli; LT, heat-labile enterotoxin; OR, odds ratio; ST, heat-stable enterotoxin.

a OR: ratio of the odds of moderate-to-severe diarrhea when the putative pathogen is present to the odds when it is absent. OR >1 indicates a positive association.

b P value from logistic regression.