Table 2.
Prevalence of Salmonella among diarrheic patients attending private hospitals stratified by selected background characteristics.
| Characteristics | Category | Salmonella status | p value | ||
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| No. examined | No. positive | Percent | |||
| Sex (N = 298) | Male | 176 | 7 | 4.0 | 0.6 |
| Female | 122 | 7 | 5.7 | ||
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| Age group (N = 265) | 0-5 | 24 | 1 | 4.2 | 0.3 |
| 6-18 | 17 | 1 | 5.9 | ||
| 19-30 | 76 | 1 | 1.3 | ||
| 31-45 | 95 | 8 | 8.4 | ||
| >45 | 53 | 3 | 5.7 | ||
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| Educational status (N = 265) | Illiterate | 16 | 1 | 6.3 | 0.4 |
| Underage/preschool | 25 | 3 | 12.0 | ||
| Primary school (1-8) | 40 | 3 | 7.5 | ||
| Secondary school (9-12) | 74 | 3 | 4.0 | ||
| College/university | 110 | 4 | 3.6 | ||
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| Occupation (N = 265) | Business person | 66 | 4 | 6.0 | |
| Student/underage | 56 | 2 | 3.6 | ||
| Governmental | 55 | 3 | 5.5 | 0.6 | |
| Private | 44 | 1 | 2.3 | ||
| Housewife | 34 | 4 | 11.8 | ||
| Others | 10 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
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| ∗handwashing habit after using toilet (N = 241) | Yes | 213 | 10 | 4.7 | 0.2 |
| No | 28 | 3 | 10.7 | ||
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| Consumption of raw vegetables (N = 265) | Yes | 178 | 9 | 5.0 | 0.8 |
| No | 87 | 5 | 5.7 | ||
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| Consumption of raw meat (N = 265) | Yes | 175 | 12 | 6.9 | 0.2 |
| No | 90 | 2 | 2.2 | ||
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| Stool consistency (N = 298) | Loose | 168 | 10 | 6.0 | 0.4 |
| Watery | 82 | 2 | 2.4 | ||
| Mucoid | 36 | 1 | 2.8 | ||
| Bloody | 12 | 1 | 8.3 | ||
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| Total | 298 | 14 | 4.7 | ||
∗One of the Salmonella positive study participants did not respond to this question.