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. 2014 Aug 19;11(1):192–197. doi: 10.4161/hv.35861

Table 1. Person-to-person hepatitis A outbreaks according to the risk factor of the index case in the pre-vaccination (1991–98) and in the post-vaccination (2000–12) periods.

Number of outbreaks OR* (95% CI) P aOR (95% CI) P
Period 1: 1991–98 Period 2:
2000–12
Day care (child) 10 9 3.07 (1.20–7.84) 0.019
Day care (adult) 1 7 0.36 (0.04–2.94) 0.338
Immigrant 5 58 0.17 (0.07–0.44) < 0.001 0.19 (0.07–0.49) 0.005
Household contact 29 60 1.35 (0.79–2.31) 0.275
School contact 23 17 4.34 (2.18–8.63) < 0.001 2.72 (1.35–5.48) < 0.001
Travel 1 5 0.51 (0.06–4.37) 1
MSM 0 26 0.04 (0.002–0.74) 0.003 0.04 (0.002–0.67) 0.026
Others** and unknown*** 17 37 1.21 (0.64–2.29) 0.555
All outbreaks 86 219

MSM, men who have sex with men; OR, Odds ratio; aOR, adjusted odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; *comparing each category of risk factor with all the others; **others, adopted children; ***unknown, outbreaks with unknown risk factors