Table 2.

Cross sectional study India: effect of type of person and type of activity on number of fingers contaminated and log colony count of Enterococcus and E. coli (N = 122).

Person/Activity	N	No. of Fingers Contaminated			Log Colony Count
		Difference *	95% CI	P	Difference **	95% CI	P
Enterococcus spp.
Person
Male (reference)	23	-		-	-		-
Mother of young child	65	1.45	0.11/2.74	0.033	0.26	0.04/0.51	0.036
Grandmother	34	0.34	−1.15/1.91	0.654	0.11	−0.18/0.35	0.383
Activity
None (reference)	19	-	-	-	-		-
Child rearing	37	2.35	0.87/3.83	0.002	0.28	0.02/0.52	0.031
Food preparation	12	2.41	1.07/3.74	0.000	0.54	0.17/0.92	0.004
Soil contact	24	0.77	−0.62/2.15	0.276	0.06	−0.18/0.30	0.645
Contact with Agricultural products/crops	6	1.36	−0.21/2.92	0.090	0.24	−0.24/0.71	0.325
Animal contact	10	1.36	−0.52/3.25	0.156	0.17	−0.24/0.58	0.409
Other	23	0.64	−1.19/2.46	0.495	0.10	−0.23/0.43	0.545
Escherichia coli
Person
Male (reference)	23	-		-	-		-
Mother of young child	65	0.61	−0.48/1.82	0.328	0.08	−0.12/0.37	0.534
Grandmother	34	0.73	−0.66/2.12	0.287	0.19	−0.13/0.49	0.210
Activity
None (reference)	19	-		-	-		-
Child rearing	37	−0.05	−1.39/1.30	0.947	0.10	−0.22/0.42	0.542
Food preparation	12	1.62	−0.28/3.51	0.095	2.20	1.97/2.42	0.000
Soil contact	24	0.78	−0.59/2.16	0.264	0.14	−0.04/0.32	0.129
Contact with Agricultural products/crops	6	2.83	0.26/5.41	0.031	2.28	2.11/2.45	0.000
Animal contact	10	1.15	−0.56/2.86	0.188	0.27	0.001/0.54	0.050
Other	23	−0.21	−1.86/1.42	0.798	0.03	−0.31/0.38	0.845

^* univariate linear regression analysis, difference in mean number of contaminated fingers; ^** difference in mean log colony counts.