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Table 2 Multivariable analysis of potential risk factors of E. coli resistance to ampicillin, cotrimoxazole and doxycycline among index persons and their spouse.

From: Clustering of antibiotic resistance of E. coli in couples: suggestion for a major role of conjugal transmission

 

Ampicillin resistance

Cotrimoxazole resistance*

Doxycycline resistance

 

OR

(95% CI)

OR

(95% CI)

OR

(95% CI)

Spouse with the same type of resistance

6.9

(3.1–15.5)

3.5

(1.5–11.1)

2.0

(0.8–5.2)

Antibiotic use within last 3 months

1.3

(0.4–4.5)

1.2

(0.2–5.7)

0.4

(0.05–2.9)

Hospital stay within last 12 months

1.1

(0.2–6.1)

-

-

0.6

(0.07–5.1)

Visit of a hospital or nursing home within last 12 months

0.7

(0.3–1.5)

1.0

(0.4–2.6)

1.1

(0.5–2.6)

Daily meat consumption

0.8

(0.4–1.8)

0.5

(0.2–1.4)

0.7

(0.3–1.7)

  1. *Hospital stay within the last 12 months was not included in the multivariable model of cotrimoxazole resistance, because there were no patients with recent hospital admission and cotrimoxazole resistant E. coli