Table 4.

Correlation between Bartonella seropositivity and responses to BDI II questions in Toxoplasma-seronegative and Toxoplasma-seropositive subjects.

BDI II-R item	Toxoplasma-minus women N = 77		Toxoplasma-plus women N = 71		Toxoplasma-minus men N = 50		Toxoplasma-plus men N = 32
	Tau	p	Tau	p	Tau	p	Tau	p
Sadness	−0.102	0.189	0.006	0.946	0.204*	0.036	−0.229	0.065
Pessimism	0.055	0.481	0.042	0.602	−0.017	0.863	0.040	0.746
Past failure	−0.024	0.758	0.064	0.428	0.154*	0.115	−0.172	0.167
Loss of pleasure	−0.021	0.784	−0.007	0.932	0.212*	0.030	−0.136	0.275
Guilty feelings	−0.011	0.890	−0.101	0.215	0.292*	0.003	−0.145	0.243
Punishment feelings	0.007	0.924	−0.060	0.456	0.280*	0.004	−0.158	0.203
Self–dislike	−0.029	0.707	0.048	0.554	0.181*	0.064	−0.249*	0.045
Self–criticalness	−0.120	0.121	0.067	0.406	0.305*	0.002	0.193	0.120
Suicidal thoughts or wishes	0.059	0.447	−0.038	0.640	0.200*	0.040	−0.045	0.719
Crying	−0.015	0.848	0.051	0.532	0.205*	0.036	0.057	0.647
Agitation	0.039	0.613	−0.155	0.055	0.284*	0.004	−0.291*	0.019
Loss of interest	−0.158	0.042	0.086	0.287	0.252*	0.010	−0.264*	0.034
Indecisiveness	−0.062	0.425	0.064	0.429	0.176*	0.071	−0.322*	0.010
Worthlessness	0.044	0.568	0.106	0.191	0.177*	0.070	−0.338*	0.007
Loss of energy	0.093	0.229	0.119	0.145	0.362*	0.000	−0.174	0.161
Changes in sleeping pattern	0.030	0.697	−0.221*	0.006	0.000	0.997	−0.114	0.357
Irritability	0.027	0.726	−0.023	0.775	0.164*	0.092	−0.149	0.232
Changes in appetite	−0.073	0.348	−0.039	0.633	0.248*	0.011	−0.040	0.747
Concentration difficulty	−0.028	0.714	0.047	0.566	0.183*	0.061	0.025	0.839
Tiredness or fatigue	0.069	0.378	−0.075	0.356	0.357*	0.000	−0.082	0.512
Loss of interest in sex	−0.080	0.301	−0.050	0.540	0.172*	0.077	0.001	0.996

Tau and p-values of partial Kendall Tau correlations controlled for age. The results that are significant after a correction for multiple tests are labeled with asterisks.