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Volume 21, Number 9—September 2015
THEME ISSUE
Emerging Infections Program
Emerging Infections Program

Socioeconomic Status and Foodborne Pathogens in Connecticut, USA, 2000–20111

Bridget M. WhitneyComments to Author , Christina Mainero, Elizabeth Humes, Sharon Hurd, Linda Niccolai, and James L. Hadler
Author affiliations: Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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Table 2

Age-adjusted incidence rates and age-adjusted rate ratios of salmonellosis and 9 leading Salmonella enterica serotypes by census tract–level SES, Connecticut, USA, 2000–2011*

Salmonella serotype
Census tract–level SES, % living below poverty level
 p value†
<5
 5–9.9
 10–19.9
 ≥20
Total,, N = 5,204 0.012
Age-adjusted IR 13.18 12.50 12.02 11.34
Age-adjusted IRR 1.00 0.95 0.91 0.86
Enteriditis,, n = 1,350 <0.001
Age-adjusted IR 3.72 3.09 2.40 2.51
Age-adjusted IRR 1.00 0.83 0.65 0.67
Heidelberg, n = 178 0.001
Age-adjusted IR 0.35 0.46 0.47 0.68
Age-adjusted IRR 1.00 1.31 1.34 1.94
Montevideo, n = 98 0.046
Age-adjusted IR 0.27 0.28 0.16 0.14
Age-adjusted IRR 1.00 1.04 0.59 0.52
Newport, n = 353 0.002
Age-adjusted IR 0.94 0.86 0.77 0.50
Age-adjusted IRR 1.00 0.91 0.82 0.53
Oranienburg, n = 109 0.472
Age-adjusted IR 0.29 0.23 0.27 0.23
Age-adjusted IRR 1.00 0.79 0.93 0.79
Saintpaul, n = 130 0.053
Age-adjusted IR 0.29 0.29 0.29 0.47
Age-adjusted IRR 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.62
I 4,[5],12:i:-, n = 134 0.585
Age-adjusted IR 0.33 0.27 0.40 0.36
Age-adjusted IRR 1.00 0.82 1.21 1.09
Thompson, n = 96 0.441
Age-adjusted IR 0.26 0.20 0.22 0.21
Age-adjusted IRR 1.00 0.77 0.85 0.81
Typhimurium, n = 1,000 0.913
Age-adjusted IR 2.41 2.53 2.57 2.40
Age-adjusted IRR 1.00 1.05 1.07 1.00

*IR, incidence rate; IRR, incidence rate ratio, SES, socioeconomic status. Age-adjusted IRs calculated/100,000 persons; Reference category for age-adjusted IRRs is <5% poverty.
†By χ2 test for trend.

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1Preliminary results from this study were presented at the 2014 Annual Conference of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists; June 23–25, 2014; Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

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