Volume 18, Number 3—March 2012
Research
Seroprevalence of Antibodies against Taenia solium Cysticerci among Refugees Resettled in United States
Table 1
Relationship between sex and seroprevalence of antibodies against Taenia solium cysts among refugees resettled in the United States
Country of origin | Male refugees |
Female refugees |
Odds ratio* (95% CI) | p value† | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. positive/total no. | % (95% CI) | No. positive/total no. | % (95% CI) | ||||
Burma (Myanmar) | 78/273 | 28.6 (23.2–34.0) | 38/226 | 16.8 (11.9–21.7) | 2.0 (1.3–3.1) | <0.01 | |
Laos | 41/240 | 17.1 (12.3–21.9) | 51/262 | 19.5 (14.7–24.3) | 0.9 (0.5–1.3) | 0.49 | |
Burundi | 57/234 | 24.4 (18.8–29.9) | 72/266 | 27.1 (21.7–32.4) | 0.9 (0.6–1.3) | 0.49 | |
Bhutan | 56/237 | 23.6 (18.2–29.1) | 58/263 | 22.1 (17.0–27.1) | 1.1 (0.7–1.7) | 0.68 | |
Total | 232/984 | 23.6 (20.9–26.2) | 219/1,017 | 21.5 (19.0–24.1) | 1.1 (0.9–1.4) | 0.27 |
*Odds of positive result for enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot for lentil-lectin purified glycoprotein (EITB LLGP) testing of samples from male refugees compared with samples from female refugees.
†Pearson χ2.