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. 2014 Jun;80(12):3708–3720. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00254-14

TABLE 3.

Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for selected pathogens and ruminant and wildlife MST markers for all years of the study (2005 to 2011)a

Pathogen Bacteroidales marker Lower 95% CI of OR OR Upper 95% CI of OR P valueb
Salmonella spp. Ruminant 1.00 6.37 40.67 0.050
Wildlife 0.45 2.82 17.47 0.267
Arcobacter spp. Ruminant 0.08 0.28 0.95 0.041*
Wildlife 0.76 5.94 46.61 0.090
Norovirus GII Ruminant 1.07 4.71 20.85 0.041*
Adjusted norovirus GIIc Wildlife 0.01 0.17 3.01 0.228
a

Note that other pathogens did not have enough data support and/or had confidence intervals that straddled the value of 1 and therefore are not presented here. Only ruminant and wildlife markers were used here since they were deemed more directly influenced by CTD practices in these experimental watersheds.

b

*, result considered significant due to the confidence interval not bracketing unity and P < 0.05.

c

Here we added 0.5 within cells of the 2-by-2 matrix to perform OR and OR CI calculation due to a “zero” cell (i.e., there were no positive samples for both norovirus GII and Bacteroidales wildlife markers at the same site and time of sample).