From: Hepatitis E virus outbreak associated with rainfall in the Central African Republic in 2008-2009
Total | HEV cases | Cases of other etiologies | p | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N = 2883 | N = 745 | N = 2138 | |||||
Sex n, % | |||||||
Female | 1239 | 43.0% | 327 | 44.0% | 912 | 42.7% | 0.445 |
Male | 1642 | 57.0% | 417 | 56.0% | 1225 | 57.3% | |
Age (median, IQR) | 21, 11–30 | 23, 17–33 | 20, 8–30 | < 0.001 | |||
Year n, % | |||||||
2008 | 501 | 17.4% | 270 | 36.3% | 231 | 10.8% | < 0.001 |
2009 | 813 | 28.2% | 352 | 47.3% | 461 | 21.6% | |
2010 | 615 | 21.3% | 83 | 11.2% | 532 | 24.9% | |
2011 | 438 | 15.2% | 25 | 3.4% | 413 | 19.3% | |
2012 | 516 | 17.9% | 15 | 2.0% | 501 | 23.4% | |
Season n, % | |||||||
Dry | 1257 | 43.6% | 254 | 34.1% | 1003 | 46.9% | < 0.001 |
Rainy | 1626 | 56.4% | 491 | 65.9% | 1135 | 53.1% | |
Location n, % | |||||||
Bangui | 1037 | 36.1% | 356 | 47.8% | 681 | 31.9% | < 0.001 |
Rest of the country | 1839 | 63.9% | 388 | 52.2% | 1451 | 68.1% |