Epidemiology and Performances of Typhidot Immunoassay and Widal Slide Agglutination in the Diagnosis of Typhoid Fever in Febrile Patients in Bafoussam City, Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study
Table 4
Multivariate analysis of sociodemographic characteristics of study participants.
Variable
Total (N = 336)
Typhoid fever positive (N = 70)
value
OR (95% CI)
Gender
Female
196 (58.33)
53 (27.17)
0.817
0.514 (0.445–1.501)
Male
140 (41.66)
17 (12.14)
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Age groups (years)
[1–10]
195 (58.03)
41 (21.02)
0.545
0.414 (0.017–10.328)
[11–20]
59 (17.55)
13 (22.03)
0.591
0.889 (0.041–19.431)
[21–30]
33 (9.82)
8 (24.24)
0.94
1.313 (0.063–27.580)
[31–40]
28 (8.33)
5 (17.85)
0.861
1.646 (0.084–32.179)
[41–50]
13 (3.86)
2 (15.38)
0.742
2.845 (0.105–77.173)
[51–60]
8 (2.38)
1 (12.50)
0.535
1
Level of education
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Primary
137 (40.77)
30 (15.30)
0.779
1.242 (0.274–5.621)
Secondary
153 (45.53)
30 (19.60)
0.578
1.533 (0.341–6.892)
Higher
22 (6.54)
6 (27.27)
0.959
1.053 (0.144–7.700)
No level
24 (7.14)
4 (16.66)
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Marital status
Married
61 (18.15)
16 (11.76)
0.454
0.441 (0.052–3.756)
Single
224 (66.66)
46 (30.06)
0.534
0.49 (0.052–4.643)
Divorced
32 (9.52)
5 (22.72)
0.991
0.988 (0.124–7.895)
Widow
19 (5.65)
3 (12.50)
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1
Occupation
Student
218 (64.88)
35 (16.05)
0.779
3.974 (0.420–37.576)
Private sector
94 (27.97)
30 (31.91)
0.578
0.418 (0.046–3.768)
Civil servant
12 (3.57)
2 (16.66)
0.959
1.076 (0.057–20.302)
House wife
12 (3.57)
3 (25)
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Residence
Urban area
216 (64.28)
46 (21.29)
0.730
1.135 (0.554–2.323)
Rural area
120 (35.71)
24 (20)
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Values in brackets are in percentage (%). In this table, the denominator for column three corresponds to the total of each variable.
