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Volume 20, Number 11—November 2014
Dispatch

Raw Pig Blood Consumption and Potential Risk for Streptococcus suis Infection, Vietnam

Vu Thi Lan HuongComments to Author , Ngo Thi Hoa, Peter W. Horby, Juliet E. Bryant, Nguyen Van Kinh, Tran Khanh Toan, and Heiman F.L. Wertheim
Author affiliations: Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hanoi, Vietnam (V.T.L. Huong, P. Horby, J.E. Bryant, H.F.L. Wertheim); Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (N.T. Hoa); University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (V.T.L. Huong, N.T. Hoa, P. Horby, J.E. Bryant, H.F.L. Wertheim); National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Hanoi (N.V. Kinh); Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi (T.K. Toan)

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Table 2

Variables in models predicting consumption of raw pig blood , Vietnam*

Group Variables in final model† Nagelkerke R‡
Rural persons Sex, age, occupation, marital status, HES 0.123
Rural farmers Sex, age, marital status, HES 0.086
Rural non-farmers Sex age, occupation, marital status 0.168
Urban persons Sex, age, occupation, HES 0.185
Rural and urban persons Sex, age, occupation, marital status, location (rural vs. urban) 0.242

*HES, household economic status.
†For model selection, all variables were forced into logistic regression. Each variable that was not significant (p ≥0.10) was removed step by step until all remaining variables were significant (p<0.10) in the model.
‡Higher values indicate a stronger model.

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