Volume 24, Number 6—June 2018
Research
Hepatitis E in Long-Term Travelers from the Netherlands to Subtropical and Tropical Countries, 2008–2011
Floortje Elfrink
, Femke W. Overbosch, Janke Schinkel, Gerrit Koen, and Gerard J.B. Sonder
, Femke W. Overbosch, Janke Schinkel, Gerrit Koen, and Gerard J.B. Sonder
Table 1
Characteristics of 604 travelers who visited a travel clinic for pretravel advice and prevalence of previous HEV infection, the Netherlands, December 2008–September 2011*
| Characteristic | Travelers | HEV IgG positive pretravel | Univariable analysis |
Multivariable analysis |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PR (95% CI) | p value | PR (95% CI) | p value | ||||
| Total |
604 |
89 (14.7) |
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| Median age, y (IQR) |
25 (23–29) |
26 (23–30) |
1.0 (1.01–1.07) |
0.002 |
1.0 (1.01–1.06) |
0.01 |
|
| Sex | |||||||
| F | 389 (64.4) | 54 (13.9) | 1.0 | 0.43 | |||
| M |
215 (35.6) |
35 (16.3) |
1.2 (0.76–1.92) |
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| Region of birth | |||||||
| Western (the Netherlands), n = 563 | 590 (97.7) | 84 (14.2) | 1.0 | 0.034 | 1.0 | 0.03 | |
| Nonwestern |
14 (2.3) |
5 (35.7) |
3.4 (1.10–10.23) |
3.6 (1.5–11.28) |
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| Previous travel to subtropical region | |||||||
| No | 122 (20.2) | 7 (5.7) | 1.0 | 0.003 | 1.0 | 0.01 | |
| Yes | 482 (79.8) | 82 (17.0) | 3.4 (1.5–7.5) | 2.9 (1.27–6.45) | |||
*Values are no. (%) except as indicated. Bold indicates statistical significance. HEV, hepatitis E virus; IQR, interquartile range; PR, prevalence ratio.
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