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Table 4 Factors associated with septicemic melioidosis with dissemination among 158 patients from multiple logistic regression analysis

From: The epidemiology and clinical spectrum of melioidosis in a teaching hospital in a North-Eastern state of Malaysia: a fifteen-year review

Variable

Crude OR (95 % CI)a

Adjusted OR (95 % CI)b

Wald Statistics (df)

p value

Human risk

    

 Not presented

1.00

   

 Presented

4.37 (1.75, 10.81)

4.36 (1.75, 10.84)

10.05 (1)

0.002

Bacteremia

    

 Not presented

1.00

   

 Presented

3.16 (1.14, 8.73)

13.83 (2.26, 14.51)

8.01 (1)

0.004

Lung melioidosis

    

 Not presented

1.00

   

 Presented

3.38 (1.65, 6.95)

10.86 (4.14, 11.19)

13.54 (1)

0.001

Skin and soft tissue melioidosis

    

 Not presented

1.00

   

 Presented

3.42 (1.63, 7.20)

7.27 (1.39, 4.10)

5.52 (1)

0.019

Osteoarticular melioidosis

    

 Not presented

1.00

   

 Presented

8.05 (2.86, 22.71)

10.30 (8.62, 13.90)

17.71 (1)

0.001

Melioidotic abscesses

    

 Not presented

1.00

   

 Presented

4.59 (2.02, 10.40)

34.55 (7.64, 156.35)

21.15 (1)

0.001

  1. - aSimple logistic regression, bMultiple logistic regression