Table 5.
Adjusted and unadjusted relative risk ratios for contact with domestic animals versus household POU stored drinking water contamination with intestinal enterococci, as derived from multinomial regression.
| Risk factor | Unadj. bivariate regression |
Adj. multivariate regression |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Relative risk ratio (95% ci) | P value | Relative risk ratio (95% ci) | P value | |
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Medium contamination (10–99 CFU/100 ml) | ||||
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Livestock observed in household compound: | ||||
| Goats | 1.03 (0.59–1.78) | 0.926 | ||
| Cattle | 0.65 (0.38–1.11) | 0.116 | ||
| Dogs | 0.66 (0.39–1.11) | 0.117 | ||
| Cats | 1.24 (0.72–2.14) | 0.436 | ||
| Poultry | 1.11 (0.50–2.48) | 0.79 | ||
| Poultry (confined in coop) | 1.18 (0.66–2.12) | 0.569 | 1.51 (0.67–3.38) | 0.320 |
| Poultry spend night by stored water | 1.71 (0.99–2.96) | 0.053 | ||
| Signs of livestock in home | 0.83 (0.46–1.51) | 0.551 | ||
| Water storage container accessible to animals |
1.40 (0.85–2.32) |
0.186 |
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|
High contamination ( > = 100 CFU/100 ml) | ||||
| Goats | 1.13 (0.68–1.89) | 0.629 | ||
| Cattle | 0.77 (0.47–1.27) | 0.309 | ||
| Dogs | 0.99 (0.61–1.63) | 0.983 | ||
| Cats | 1.69 (1.01–2.79) | 0.042* | ||
| Poultry | 2.36 (1.02–5.45) | 0.044* | ||
| Poultry (confined in coop) | 5.19 (2.64–10.21) | < 0.001** | 4.46 (1.80–11.07) | 0.001** |
| Poultry spend night by stored water | 1.50 (0.90–2.52) | 0.121 | ||
| Signs of livestock in home | 2.13 (1.14–3.98) | 0.018* | ||
| Water storage container accessible to animals | 2.01 (1.21–3.33) | 0.007* | ||
* = significant at the 0.05 level/** = significant at the 0.01 level.