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Volume 21, Number 3—March 2015
CME ACTIVITY - Research

Epidemiology of Human Mycobacterium bovis Disease, California, USA, 2003–2011

Mark GallivanComments to Author , Neha Shah, and Jennifer Flood
Author affiliations: California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California, USA (M. Gallivan, N. Shah, J. Flood); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (N. Shah)

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Table 3

Multivariate model of sociodemographic and clinical characteristics associated with Mycobacterium bovis disease versus M. tuberculosis disease, California, USA, 2010–2011

Risk factors Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI)
Diabetes status
Absent Reference
Present
1.5 (1.1–2.1)
Other immunosuppressive condition(s)*
Absent Reference
Present
1.8 (1.2–2.8)
Race/ethnicity
White, non-Hispanic Reference
Black, non-Hispanic 1.2 (0.2–6.2)
Asian, non-Hispanic 3.6 (1.0–12.8)
Hispanic 7.3 (2.2–24.3)
Other
2.3 (0.2–23.3)
Country of birth
United States Reference
Mexico 1.1 (0.7–1.8)
Other
0.4 (0.2–0.7)
Main site of disease
Pulmonary† Reference
Extrapulmonary only 3.9 (2.8–5.5)

*Excludes diabetes mellitus and HIV co-infection but includes end-stage renal disease, immunosuppression associated with receiving anti–tumor necrosis factor-α therapy, immunosuppression associated with receiving solid-organ transplant, or other immunosuppressive condition.
†Includes case-patients with pulmonary and extrapulmonary disease.

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