Volume 18, Number 11—November 2012
Dispatch
Susceptibility of Children to Sapovirus Infections, Nicaragua, 2005–2006
Table 1
Epidemiologic profile of SaV infections, León, Nicaragua, 2005–2006*
Characteristic |
Symptomatic, n = 205
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Asymptomatic, n = 87
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Total | No. (%) SaV strains | OR | Total | No. (%) SaV strains | OR | ||
Setting | |||||||
Community |
160 | 20 (12) | 0.9 | 87 | 8 (9) | ||
Hospital |
45 | 5 (11) | 0 | ||||
Both |
205 | 25 (12) | 87 | 8 (9) | |||
Patient sex | |||||||
M |
125 | 14 (11) | 0.8 | 43 | 6 (14) | 3.405† | |
F |
80 | 11 (14) | 44 | 2 (5) | |||
Patient age, mo | |||||||
≤6 |
36 | 5 (14) | 1.2 | 11 | 2 (18) | 2.6‡ | |
7–12 |
57 | 12 (21) | 2.8§ | 15 | 2 (13) | 1.7 | |
13–24 |
67 | 7 (10) | 0.8 | 48 | 4 (8) | 0.8 | |
25– 60 |
45 | 1 (2) | 0.1 | 13 | 0 (0) | NA |
*SaV, sapovirus; OR, odds ratio; NA, not applicable.
†Fisher test, 95%, CI, p = 0.15.
‡Fisher test, 95%, CI, p = 0.26.
§Fisher test, 95%, CI, p = 0.02.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.