Table 4.

Correlation between malaria, BSI, UTI, GII and CBPN and demographic, clinical and laboratory data

	Malaria		Blood stream infection		Urinary tract infection		Gastro-intestinal infection		CBPN
	OR (95% CI)	P-value	OR (95% CI)	P-value	OR (95% CI)	P-value	OR (95% CI)	P-value	OR (95% CI)	P-value
Gender
Male	1		1		1		1		1
Female	1.19 (0.88–1.61)	0.255	1.01 (0.53–1.91)	0.969	1.22 (0.34–4.45)	0.752	1.18 (0.83–1.69)	0.350	1.18 (0.82–1.70)	0.381
Age
≤12 months	1		1		1		1		1
>12 months	2.85 (2.02–4.06)	<0.001*	0.70 (0.37–1.39)	0.299	0.34 (0.09–1.25)	0.094	2.88 (1.86–4.58)	<0.001*	0.90 (0.61–1.35)	0.609
Temperature
37.5 °C–38.5 °C	1		1		1		1		1
38.5 °C–39.5 °C	1.26 (0.91–1.76)	0.166	1.28 (0.64–2.51)	0.479	1.93 (0.50–7.92)	0.330	0.99 (0.67–1.47)	0.963	1.21 (0.81–1.80)	0.334
>39.5 °C	2.06 (1.31–3.26)	0.002*	0.87 (0.28–2.23)	0.789	0.86 (0.04–5.90)	0.891	1.13 (0.67–1.89)	0.647	0.90 (0.50–1.55)	0.714
White cell counts
4 × 103–12 × 103	1		1		1		1		1
<4 × 103 cells/mm3	1.18 (0.33–4.67)	0.803	0.35 (0.02–7.31)	0.828	0.66 (0.20–26.68)	0.828	1.55 (0.36–6.70)	0.540	1.13 (0.01–2.31)	0.166
≥12 × 103 mm3	0.58 (0.43–0.79)	<0.001*	1.03 (0.55–1.91)	0.206	2.25 (0.64–7.92)	0.206	0.79 (0.55–1.14)	0.211	1.36 (0.94–1.95)	0.100
Anaemia
≥11 g/dl	1		1		1	1	1		1
<8 g/dl	4.06 (2.35–7.20)	<0.001*	1.60 (0.54–5.80)	0.426	1.50 (0.31–10.70)	0.631	1.71 (0.39–1.28)	0.252	1.16 (0.64–1.18)	0.625
8 g/dl–11 g/dl	2.51 (1.53–4.24)	<0.001*	1.25 (0.47–4.33)	0.688	0.34 (0.06–2.65)	0.248	0.60 (0.35–1.01)	0.052	0.81 (0.46–1.44)	0.453
Vaccination according EPI
Yes	1		1		1		1		1
No	0.78 (0.52–1.14)	0.204	0.68 (0.25–1.58)	0.409	0.12 (0.01–2.05)	0.145	1.23 (0.81–1.98)	0.294	0.98 (0.60–1.58)	0.950
Unknown	1.32 (0.86–2.05)	0.204	0.90 (0.33–2.10)	0.829	0.16 (0.01–2.66)	0.201	1.11 (0.64–1.88)	0.709	1.06 (0.63–1.73)	0.829

*P-value is statistically significant

BSI Blood stream infection, UTI Urinary tract infection, GII Gastro - intestinal infection, CBPN Common bacterial pathogens of nasopharynx