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Volume 26, Number 7—July 2020
Research

Risk for Coccidioidomycosis among Hispanic Farm Workers, California, USA, 2018

Stephen A. McCurdyComments to Author , Catherine Portillo-Silva, Carol L. Sipan, Heejung Bang, and Kirt W. Emery
Author affiliations: University of California, Davis, California, USA (S.A. McCurdy, H. Bang); University of California, Merced, California, USA (C. Portillo-Silva, C.L. Sipan); Kern County Public Health Services Department, Bakersfield, California, USA (K.W. Emery)

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Table 3

Reported clinical characteristics among 203 Hispanic farm workers evaluated for coccidioidomycosis, Kern County, California, USA, 2016–2018

Clinical characteristic Cases, no. (%), n = 110 Controls, no. (%), n = 93 Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI)*
>1 clinical characteristic 100 (91) 72 (77) 4.4 (1.4–14.2)
Fatigue or weakness 91 (83) 52 (56) 3.7 (1.9–7.2)
Cough 74 (67) 38 (41) 3.0 (1.6–5.3)
Night sweats 73 (66) 34 (37) 3.2 (1.8– 5.8)
Weight loss† 73 (66) 40 (43) 2.6 (1.4–4.7)
Fever 72 (65) 29 (31) 4.0 (2.2–7.4)
Chest pain 71 (65) 29 (31) 3.8 (2.1– 7.0)
Shortness of breath 66 (60) 25 (27) 4.3 (2.3–7.9)
Difficulty breathing 66 (60) 34 (37) 2.8 (1.5–4.9)
Hospitalized‡ 52 (47) 24 (26) 2.3 (1.2–4.4)
Missed work§ 88 (80) 45 (48) 4.0 (2.1–7.7)

*Adjusted for age and sex.
†Median (interquartile [IQR]) weight loss, in pounds, by case-patients vs. controls 10 (0–18) vs. 0 (0–10); p = 0.003, Kruskal-Wallis test.
‡Median (IQR) nights hospitalized for case-patients vs. controls 0 (0–5) vs. 0 (0–1); p = 0.002, Kruskal-Wallis test.
§Median (IQR) days of work lost by case-patients vs. controls 18.5 (2–48) vs. 0 (0–24); p = 0.0001, Kruskal-Wallis test.

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