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Table 2 Factors associated with C. trachomatis genotype

From: Chlamydia trachomatis genovar distribution in clinical urogenital specimens from Tunisian patients: high prevalence of C. trachomatisgenovar E and mixed infections

  

Genotype

  

Single

N (%)

Mixed

N (%)

E single

N (%)

E associated

N (%)

E single

N (%)

Other genotypes

N (%)

Gender

Men (84)

61 (56.5)

23 (79.3)

55 (56.7)

21 (77.8)

55 (56.7)

29 (72.5)

 

Women (53)

47 (43.5)

6 (20.7)

42 (43.3)

6 (22.2)

42 (43.3)

11 (27.5)

p

 

0.02

0.04

NS

Age *

<= 25 (32)

22 (24.4)

10 (40)

20 (24.4)

9 (39.1)

20 (24.4)

12 (36.4)

 

>25 (83)

68 (75.6)

15 (60)

62 (75.6)

14 (60.9)

62 (75.6)

21 (63.6)

p

 

NS

NS

NS

Infertility ‡

Presence (37)

33 (24.8)

4 (30)

31 (23.3)

4 (30)

31 (23.3)

6 (4.5)

p

 

NS

NS

NS

Current infection ‡

Presence (96)

72 (54.1)

24 (18)

63 (47.3)

17 (12.8)

63 (47.3)

33 (24.8)

p

 

NS

NS

NS

NG coinfection

Presence (18)

11 (10.2)

7 (24.1)

9 (9.3)

6 (22.2)

9 (9.3)

9 (22.5)

p

 

0.04

NS

0.03

  1. Statistically significance is marked in bold.
  2. * The age data were available for only 115 patients.
  3. The status of infection was not available only for 3 patients. One patient, presenting both current infection and infertility, was discarded from the analysis.