Table 1. Adenoviral DNA status as a function of mother’s demographics and infant gender.
| Adenoviral DNA status | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mother’s ethnicity | Positive | Negative | % positive | 95% CI 1 |
| African/Black | 15 | 396 | 3.6% | 2.2–5.9% |
| Hispanic | 4 | 77 | 4.9% | 1.9–12% |
| Caucasian | 0 | 13 | 0% | 0–23% |
| Asian | 0 | 7 | 0% | 0–35% |
| Native American | 0 | 1 | 0% | - |
| Unknown | 0 | 4 | 0% | - |
| Mother’s age | ||||
| <16 | 2 | 7 | 22.2% | 6.3–55% |
| 16–20 | 5 | 92 | 5.2% | 2.2–11.5% |
| 21–25 | 5 | 165 | 2.9% | 1.3–6.7% |
| 26–30 | 5 | 136 | 3.5% | 1.5–8.0% |
| 31–35 | 2 | 73 | 2.7% | 0.7–9.2% |
| >35 | 0 | 25 | 0.0% | 0–13.3% |
| Gender | ||||
| Female | 8 | 253 | 3.1% | 1.6–5.9% |
| Male | 11 | 245 | 4.3% | 2.4–7.5% |
| Total | ||||
| 19 | 498 | 3.7% | 2.4–5.7% | |
1The 95% confidence interval for the fraction of adenoviral DNA-positive samples was calculated according to the method of Agresti and Coull [19].