Epidemiology and RAPD-PCR typing of thermophilic campylobacters from children under five years and chickens in Morogoro Municipality, Tanzania

Table 1 Risk factors and isolation frequency of thermophilic campylobacters in children <5 years in Morogoro

Risk factor	Group	Number of children/ chickens	Number of cases	Isolation frequency (%)	P-value	Remarks
Age (months)	3–13	51	7	13.7	p = 0.953	NS
	13–24	89	19	21.4
	25–36	54	12	22.2
	37–48	41	8	19.5
	49–60	33	5	15.2
Sex	Female	123	17	13.8	p = 0.046	S
Sex	Male	145	34	23.5	p = 0.046	S
Keeping chickens	At home	84	10	11.9	p = 0.129	NS
	At neighbourhood	58	14	24.1
	Not at all	126	27	21.4
Keeping other animals	Kept	88	15	17.1	p = 0.496	NS
Keeping other animals	Not kept	180	37	20.5	p = 0.496	NS
Boiling/treating drinking water	Boiled/treated	161	27	16.7	p = 0.249	NS
Boiling/treating drinking water	Unboiled/untreated	107	24	22.4	p = 0.249	NS
Diarrhoea	Diarrhoeic	78	10	12.8	p = 0.066	NS
Diarrhoea	Non-diarrhoeic	190	41	21.6	p = 0.066	NS
Thermophilic Campylobacter isolates	C. jejuni	51	40	78.4	p = 0.000	S
	C. coli	51	10	19.6
	C. lari	51	0	0.0
	Unidentified	51	1	2.0
	Overall	268	51	19.0

S = statistically significant (p < 0.05) while NS = statistically not significant (p > 0.05)

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