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. 2013 Oct 17;8(10):e78914. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078914

Table 3. Factors associated with secondary infection in all contacts <50 years vaccinated within 8 days post exposure according to protocol (n=72).

Vaccinated per-protocol <8 days post-exposure Symptomatic secondary infection and/or PCR positivea
Univariablec

RR (95%CI) p valueb
N n %
Total 72 5 6.9
Age group
<=15 40 1 2.5 1.0
16-40 22 1 4.5 1.8 (0.1-28.9)
41+ 10 3 30.0 12.0 (1.3-106.7) 0.035
Gender
Female 36 4 11.1
Male 36 1 2.8 0.3 (0.0-2.2) 0.210
Household sizee
2 persons 9 1 11.1 1.0
3-5 persons 29 3 10.3 0.9 (0.1-8.3)
6 or more persons 34 1 2.9 0.3 (0.0-4.1) 0.530
Ethnic background
Non-Western 38 2 5.3 1.0
Dutch/western 34 3 8.8 1.7 (0.3-10.2) 0.574
Interval between exposure & vaccination, mean days (standard deviation) 4.5 (1.7) 3.4 (2.6) 0.7f (0.4-1.3) 0.223
a

Of the 5 secondary infections included in this analysis, one was a child aged 1 who was asymptomatic, but PCR positive.

b. Wald test.

c

All analyses are adjusted for clustering within households using clustered robust standard errors.

e

72 contacts were clustered in 44 households.

f

The RR is the daily incremental risk.