Volume 14, Number 7—July 2008
Research
Testing for Coccidioidomycosis among Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Table 3
Characteristics of patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) who were tested for coccidioidomycosis, Maricopa County, Arizona, January 2003–December 2004*
Characteristic | Case-patients, no. (%), n = 60 | Controls, no. (%), n = 76 | Odds ratio (95% CI) | Adjusted odds ratio† (95% CI) |
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Age >18 y | 53 (88) | 44 (58) | 5.5 (2.1–15.3)‡ | 5.3 (1.5–24.0) |
Male | 28 (55) | 40 (53) | 0.9 (0.5–1.9) | NS |
Chest pain | 19 (32) | 7 (9) | 4.6 (1.8–11.8)‡ | 3.9 (1.2–13.8) |
Rash | 5 (8) | 0 | Undefined (1.2–Undefined)‡ | 21.1§ (2.2–undefined) |
Diabetes mellitus or immunosuppressive condition | 10 (17) | 4 (5) | 3.6 (1.0–16.5)‡ | NS |
Symptoms >14 d | 20 (33) | 6 (8) | 5.8 (2.1–15.7)‡ | 4.1 (1.3–14.2) |
*CI, confidence interval; NS, not significant. Case-patients were patients who had CAP and had received Coccidioides spp. serologic testing, regardless of test result; controls were patients who had CAP but had not received Coccidioides spp. serologic testing.
†Adjusted odds ratios and exact 95%CI from a multivariable logistic regression model.
‡Significant (p<0.05) according to univariate analysis.
§Median unbiased estimate of the adjusted odds ratio.