Table 2.
Risk factor analysis of Toxoplasma gondii infection among women of childbearing age in the selected seven communities in Osun State, Nigeria
| Variables | Infection rate |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | OR | p-value | |
| Contact with cats | ||||
| No (N = 385) | 295 | 76.67 | 1.00 | 0.99 |
| Yes (N = 30) | 23 | 76.62 | 1.00 | |
| Consuming raw meat | ||||
| No (N = 67) | 57 | 85.07 | 1.00 | 0.07 |
| Yes (N = 348) | 261 | 75 | 0.53 | |
| Consuming frozen meat | ||||
| No (N = 389) | 297 | 76.35 | 1.00 | 0.67 |
| Yes (N = 25) | 20 | 80 | 0.81 | |
| Unboiled water | ||||
| No (N = 38) | 29 | 76.32 | 1.00 | 0.98 |
| Yes (N = 375) | 287 | 76.53 | 1.01 | |
| Consuming raw vegetable | ||||
| No (N = 247) | 188 | 76.11 | 1.00 | 0.76 |
| Yes (N = 168) | 130 | 77.38 | 1.07 | |
| Handling raw meat | ||||
| No (N = 41) | 31 | 75.61 | 1.00 | 0.87 |
| Yes (N = 374) | 287 | 76.74 | 1.06 | |
| Hand washing | ||||
| No (N = 57) | 44 | 77.19 | 1.00 | 0.9 |
| Yes (N = 357) | 273 | 76.47 | 0.96 | |
| Miscarriage | ||||
| No (N = 337) | 257 | 76.26 | 1.00 | 0.71 |
| Yes (N = 78) | 61 | 78.21 | 1.12 | |
| Number of miscarriages | ||||
| No (N = 335) | 255 | 76.12 | 1.00 | 0.74 |
| 1 (N = 41) | 33 | 80.49 | 1.05 | |
| >1 (N = 39) | 30 | 76.92 | 1.01 | |
| Total (N = 415) | ||||