Table 3 Prevalence of HTLV-2 infection according to sex in each age group in Brazilian Amazon indigenous communities
Age group | Female | Male | p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | Positive (%) | N | Positive (%) | ||
0–10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 |
11–20 | 20 | 2 (10) | 13 | 0 | 0.507 |
21–30 | 36 | 7 (19) | 36 | 7 (19) | 1.000 |
31–40 | 48 | 26 (54) | 28 | 7 (25) | 0.017 |
41–50 | 21 | 8 (30) | 18 | 5 (28) | 0.734 |
51–60 | 3 | 1 (33) | 4 | 0 | 0.428 |
61–70 | 6 | 4 (67) | 6 | 1 (17) | 0.242 |
> 70 | 10 | 8 (80) | 11 | 1 (9.1) | 0.002 |
p | 0.0002 | 0.3385 | |||