Table 2. Assessing associations between exposures and cases of Salmonella Chester infection by univariate conditional logistic regression, France, 2014 (n=14 cases).
Exposure | Cases (N=14) |
Control-cases (N=26) |
Matched ORb | 95% CI | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | %a | n | %a | |||
Meat | ||||||
Beef | 12 | 92 | 20 | 80 | 2.7 | 0.26–28 |
Lamb/sheep meat | 5 | 42 | 14 | 54 | 0.5 | 0.12–2.2 |
Chicken | 11 | 79 | 22 | 85 | 0.6 | 0.12–3.2 |
Chicken sausage | 3 | 21 | 4 | 16 | 1.3 | 0.22–8.0 |
Turkey ham | 1 | 7 | 8 | 31 | 0.2 | 0.02–1.7 |
Cachir | 2 | 14 | 6 | 23 | 0.6 | 0.10–3.5 |
Poultry meat sandwich | 2 | 25 | 5 | 24 | 1 | 0.05–19 |
Milk and eggs products | ||||||
Pasteurised milk | 6 | 55 | 16 | 76 | 0.2 | 0.02–1.7 |
Yogurt | 8 | 57 | 19 | 76 | 0.4 | 0.06–2.2 |
Spreadable cheese | 7 | 54 | 16 | 64 | 0.7 | 0.08–5.3 |
Scrambled eggs | 6 | 49 | 6 | 29 | 3 | 0.54–16 |
Vegetables and fruits | ||||||
Tomato | 11 | 78 | 18 | 69 | 1.4 | 0.33–6.0 |
Cucumber | 9 | 69 | 16 | 64 | 1.2 | 0.28–5.3 |
Grapes | 10 | 71 | 18 | 72 | 1 | 0.27–0.7 |
Melon | 9 | 64 | 20 | 77 | 0.6 | 0.12–2.8 |
Water melon | 10 | 71 | 21 | 81 | 0.5 | 0.08–2.7 |
Olives | 7 | 50 | 15 | 60 | 0.7 | 0.16–3.1 |
See food and fish | ||||||
Sardine | 6 | 43 | 8 | 31 | 1.5 | 0.44–5.0 |
Shrimp | 7 | 50 | 4 | 15 | 5.6 | 1.1–28 |
Squid | 6 | 43 | 4 | 15 | 3.3 | 0.81–14 |
Sweets | ||||||
Ice cream | 10 | 71 | 15 | 60 | 1.6 | 0.36–7.2 |
Popcorn | 4 | 31 | 8 | 32 | 0.9 | 0.21–0.9 |
Eating place | ||||||
Fast food X attendance | 4 | 29 | 5 | 19 | 1.9 | 0.39–8.9 |
Restaurant attendance | 14 | 100 | 18 | 69 | 6.2 | 1.1–295c |
Shrimp consumption in restaurant | 6 | 43 | 1 | 4 | 11.1 | 1.3–92.5c |
Place of residence | ||||||
Residing on the coast | 11 | 92 | 9 | 41 | 9.3 | 1.1–78 |
CI: confidence interval; OR: odds ratio.
a Percentages are based on the number of cases or control-cases who answered the questionnaire about a given exposure. These numbers can be less than the totals provided in respective column headers.
b OR matched on age categories and week of symptom onset.
c Crude odds ratio.