Seroepidemiology of Toxoplasma gondiiinfection in psychiatric inpatients in a northern Mexican city

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 4 Multivariate analysis of characteristics of the psychiatric patients and their association with T. gondii infection.

Characteristic^a	Adjusted odds ratio^b	95% Confidence interval	P value
Sexual promiscuity	15.8	3.8–64.8	0.0001
Unwashed raw fruit consumption	5.19	2.3–11.3	0.01
Deer meat consumption	0.93	0.37–2.30	0.87
Surgery history	6.5	2.6–16	<0.000
Being born outside Durango State	1.25	0.66–2.36	0.48
Untreated water consumption	1.4	0.72–2.86	0.29
Eating outside of the home	0.93	0.61–1.42	0.76
Lamb meat consumption	0.26	0.10–0.63	0.003
Pork meat consumption	0.37	0.11–1.17	0.09

^aThe variables included were those with a p < 0.20 obtained in the bivariate analysis.
^bAdjusted by gender and age.

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