Table 3.
Presence of otitis pathogens in the samples, and their association with the presence of HBoV DNA by two different criteria of positivity. Generalized estimating equations (GEE) analysis with binary logistic regression analysis served to calculate the odds ratios OR (95% CI), when the pathogen-positive children are compared with the negative children.
| AOM pathogen | No. of positive/all samples | HBoV (copies/ml) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| >1000 |
>10,000 |
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| OR | 95% CI | p | OR | 95% CI | p | ||
| Streptococcus pneumoniae | 143/304 | 0.88 | 0.41–1.88 | 0.741 | 0.77 | 0.29–2.04 | 0.598 |
| Haemophilus influenzae | 67/304 | 1.58 | 0.72–3.46 | 0.251 | 1.58 | 0.55–4.51 | 0.396 |
| Moraxella catarrhalis | 131/304 | 1.23 | 0.59–2.57 | 0.584 | 0.86 | 0.32–2.33 | 0.768 |
| Rhinovirus | 76/420 | 0.99 | 0.47–2.10 | 0.984 | 1.08 | 0.42–2.74 | 0.874 |
| Enterovirus | 93/420 | 0.92 | 0.47–1.84 | 0.823 | 0.58 | 0.28–1.19 | 0.135 |