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Volume 27, Number 9—September 2021
Research

Risk Areas for Influenza A(H5) Environmental Contamination in Live Bird Markets, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Shovon ChakmaComments to Author , Muzaffar G. Osmani, Holy Akwar, Zakiul Hasan, Tanzinah Nasrin, Md Rezaul Karim, Mohammed Abdus Samad, Mohammad Giasuddin, Peter Sly, Zahir Islam, Nitish Chandra Debnath, Eric Brum, and Ricardo Soares Magalhães
Author affiliations: Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Dhaka, Bangladesh (S. Chakma, H. Akwar, Z. Hasan, T. Nasrin, N.C. Debnath, E. Brum); The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (S. Chakma, P. Sly, Z. Islam, R. Soares Magalhães); Department of Livestock Services, Dhaka (M.G. Osmani); Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute, Savar, Bangladesh (M. Rezaul Karim, M. Abdus Samad, M. Giasuddin)

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Table 2

Risk factors associated with live bird market work zone–specific influenza A (H5) virus environmental contamination patterns, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January–March 2016*

Model and selected market-level factors
 ASE–positive
 S only–positive
 SE- or AS-positive
 Other positive
 AIC
RRR
 p value
 RRR
 p value
RRR
 p value
RRR
 p value
Univariable model
Month of sample collection; reference: January 758.5424
February 7.37 (1.93–28.24) 0.004 0.49 (0.15–1.60) 0.237 0.41 (0.14–1.18) 0.098 0.55 (0.22–1.36) 0.197
March
 10.14 (2.09–49.30)
 0.004
 2.03 (0.80–5.12)
 0.134
3.38 (1.34–8.53)
 0.010
2.30 (1.01–5.27)
 0.048
Multivariable model
Month of sample collection; reference: January 727.5063
February 7.89 (1.92–32.39) 0.004 0.55 (0.16–1.94) 0.356 0.44 (0.14–1.41) 0.168 0.60 (0.24–1.52) 0.282
March 11.14 (2.16–57.57) 0.004 2.22 (0.81–6.10) 0.121 4.46 (1.59–12.48) 0.004 2.55 (1.05–6.19) 0.038
Total no. poultry head in the market; reference: >1,000
501–1,000 1.23 (0.33–4.68) 0.757 0.54 (0.15–1.92) 0.338 0.56 (0.19–1.65) 0.295 0.50 (0.16–1.56) 0.233
1–500 0.87 (0.24–3.19) 0.830 1.55 (0.60–3.98) 0.363 0.58 (0.19–1.73) 0.328 1.07 (0.45–2.54) 0.880
Weekly market closure >1 day 0.35 (0.09–1.43) 0.145 0.56 (0.20–1.57) 0.274 1.08 (0.48–2.41) 0.850 0.53 (0.22–1.25) 0.144
Presence of roof 2.75 (0.59–12.75) 0.196 0.55 (0.20–1.54) 0.257 0.72 (0.20–2.57) 0.613 0.55 (0.25–1.20) 0.133
Sale of poultry to other vendors 1.05 (0.31–3.54) 0.933 2.26 (0.94–5.43) 0.069 1.33 (0.53–3.37) 0.542 1.38 (0.58–3.31) 0.470
Sale of products other than poultry (e.g., fish, red meat) 2.96 (0.67–13.16) 0.153 0.93 (0.38–2.27) 0.872 0.82 (0.32–2.10) 0.681 0.90 (0.40–2.02) 0.793
Market location; reference: DSCC 1.34 (0.44–4.03) 0.605 1.06 (0.42–2.64) 0.901 0.87 (0.38–2.00) 0.749 0.93 (0.43–2.01) 0.855

*A, arrival zone; AIC, Akaike information criterion; DSCC, Dhaka South City Corporation; E, consumer exposure or sales zone; RRR, relative risk ratio; S, slaughtering and processing zone.

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