Table 4.
Associations between patient characteristics and parasitic infection for children aged 5 years and below with diarrhoea in a study of intestinal parasites in urban poor, Nairobi, January 2010 to December 2011
|
Patient characteristics |
Giardia lamblia (%) |
Crude |
Adjusted |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | 95%CI | p-value | AOR | 95%CI | p-value | |||
| Total |
98/2112(4.6) |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
| Gender | ||||||||
| Male (ref) |
56/1116(5) |
1.0 |
- |
- |
1.0 |
- |
- |
|
| Female |
42/996(4.2) |
0.83 |
0.55,1.26 |
0.383 |
0.74 |
0.48,1.16 |
0.193 |
|
| Age group1 | ||||||||
| 0 to 12 months (ref) |
10/758(1.3) |
1.0 |
- |
- |
1.0 |
- |
- |
|
| 13 to 24 months |
23/528(4.4) |
3.41 |
1.61,7.22 |
0.001* |
2.36 |
1.07,5.14 |
0.031* |
|
| 25 to 36 months |
26/408(6.4) |
5.10 |
2.43,10.67 |
<0.001* |
3.26 |
1.49,7.13 |
0.003* |
|
| 37 to 48 months |
26/241(10.8) |
9.05 |
4.30,19.05 |
<0.001* |
5.86 |
2.67,12.89 |
<0.001* |
|
| 49 to 60 months |
13/148(8.8) |
7.20 |
3.10,16.76 |
<0.001* |
3.95 |
1.59, 9.78 |
0.003* |
|
| HIV status2 | ||||||||
| Negative (ref) |
78/1598(4.9) |
1.0 |
- |
- |
1.0 |
- |
- |
|
| Positive |
12/302(4) |
0.81 |
0.43,1.50 |
0.497 |
1.02 |
0.54,1.93 |
0.946 |
|
| Patient type | ||||||||
| Outpatients (ref) |
91/1577(5.8) |
1.0 |
|
|
1.0 |
|
|
|
| Inpatients |
7/535(1.3) |
0.22 |
0.10,0.47 |
<0.001* |
0.41 |
0.17,1.00 |
0.049* |
|
| Seasonality |
- |
- |
||||||
| Dry Season (ref) |
|
1.0 |
- |
- |
1.0 |
- |
- |
|
| Wet seas | 0 | 0.60 | 0.40,0.91 | <0.015 | 0.79 | 0.51,1.21 | -0.280 | |
KEY: *significant, missing values 1 = 29; 2 = 212.
Infection with Giardia lamblia.