Table 3.

Correlation between Bartonella seropositivity and health status in Toxoplasma-seronegative and Toxoplasma-seropositive subjects.

Health problems	Toxoplasma-minus women N = 81		Toxoplasma-plus women N = 77		Toxoplasma-minus men N = 54		Toxoplasma-plus men N = 38
	Tau	p	Tau	p	Tau	p	Tau	p
Allergic problems	0.163*	0.031	0.003	0.973	0.056	0.549	−0.044	0.696
Dermatologic problems	0.255*	0.001	0.121	0.119	–0.254*	0.007	–0.291*	0.010
Cardiovascular problems	0.298*	0.000	0.075	0.335	−0.123	0.189	–0.241*	0.033
Digestive organs problems	0.100	0.187	0.009	0.903	−0.038	0.686	−0.078	0.488
Metabolic problems	−0.008	0.919	0.039	0.619	−0.127	0.175	−0.220	0.051
Orthopedic problems	−0.023	0.762	−0.166	0.032	0.040	0.672	−0.044	0.700
Neurological problems	0.077	0.312	0.114	0.142	−0.215	0.022	−0.032	0.780
Psychiatric problems	0.189*	0.013	0.125	0.113	0.156	0.096	0.075	0.506
Headache	−0.066	0.380	0.095	0.219	−0.028	0.768	−0.053	0.639
Other chronical pain	0.201*	0.008	−0.076	0.327	0.124	0.186	−0.132	0.242
Other chronical problems	0.151*	0.048	0.028	0.722	0.009	0.925	−0.048	0.674
Tired	0.180*	0.018	0.028	0.720	−0.023	0.803	–0.265*	0.019
Tired after work	0.122	0.107	0.003	0.973	0.122	0.192	−0.145	0.201
Tired after traveling by train	0.126	0.095	−0.019	0.806	−0.153	0.102	−0.097	0.393
Viral infections	0.114	0.133	0.020	0.797	0.118	0.208	0.131	0.246
Doctors' visits per year	0.156*	0.039	−0.036	0.640	0.065	0.484	0.087	0.443
Antibiotics in last year	−0.014	0.853	0.144	0.063	−0.058	0.537	0.034	0.761
Antibiotics in last 3 years	−0.063	0.404	0.294*	0.000	−0.094	0.316	−0.214	0.058
Hospitals in last year	−0.071	0.348	−0.160	0.039	n.d.		n.d.
Hospitals in last 3 years	−0.094	0.216	−0.092	0.237	−0.105	0.262	−0.209	0.065

The table shows partial Kendall Tau (age controlled) and corresponding p-values. Absence/presence of the specific antibodies was coded as 0/1, therefore, the positive Tau means more serious or more frequent problem in the seropositive subjects. Significant results are printed in bold, those significant after the correction for multiple tests are labeled with asterisks. Correlation with number of hospitalizations in the last year (n.d.) could not be computed for men, due to a low number of hospitalized subjects.