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. 2006 Sep 22;25(13):2458–2464. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2006.09.020

Table 3.

Associations between bacterium/virus pairs in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children

Host-level covariance
Microbe-level covariance
Aboriginal Non-Aboriginal Aboriginal Non-Aboriginal
S. pneumoniae × Rhinovirus 0.44 (0.05,0.83) −0.01 (−0.32,0.31) 0.14(0.04,0.23) 0.14 (0.05,0.23)
H. influenzae × Rhinovirus 0.39 (0.00,0.77) −0.11 (−0.47,0.26) 0.25 (0.16,0.35) 0.12 (0.04,0.21)
M. catarrhalis × Rhinovirus 0.36 (−0.07,0.78) 0.12 (−0.19,0.43) 0.21 (0.12,0.31) 0.14 (0.05,0.22)
S. aureus × Rhinovirus 0.34 (−0.07,0.74) 0.20 (−0.21,0.61) 0.01 (−0.10,0.11) 0.12 (0.03,0.20)
S. pneumoniae × Adenovirus 0.61 (0.00,1.22) −0.33 (−0.97,0.32) −0.05 (−0.15,0.05) 0.21 (0.13,0.29)
H. influenzae × Adenovirus 0.41 (−0.18,1.00) 0.52 (−0.23,1.26) 0.15 (0.05,0.25) 0.07 (−0.02,0.16)
M. catarrhalis × Adenovirus 0.33 (−0.33,0.99) 0.00 (−0.65,0.64) 0.11 (0.01,0.20) 0.33 (0.25,0.40)
S. aureus × Adenovirus 0.12 (−0.51,0.76) 0.56 (−0.28,1.39) −0.05 (−0.15,0.05) 0.08 (−0.01,0.17)
Adenovirus × Rhinovirus 0.48 (−0.01,0.96) −0.02 (−0.59,0.55) 0.09 (−0.01,0.19) 0.27 (0.19,0.35)

Associations are statistically significant (p < 0.05) where the confidence interval for the covariance does not include zero.

Ninety-five percent confidence limits are shown in parentheses; significant values appear in bold.