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Table 3 Clinical signs and symptoms and basic laboratory results associated to bacterial infection in multivariate logistic regression analysis

From: Can clinical signs or symptoms combined with basic hematology data be used to predict the presence of bacterial infections in febrile children under - 5 years?

 

Bacterial infected group

BSI

UTI

GII

Clinical signs and symptoms

OR (IC 95%)

P value

OR (IC 95%)

P value

OR (IC 95%)

P value

OR (IC 95%)

P value

Z-score Weight/age < 2SD in kg/month, kg/age, mean (SD)

0.95(0.68;1.33)

0.761

0.82(0.67;1.01)

0.063

0.82(0.54;1.25)

0.358

0.87(0.72;1.05)

0.140

Z-score Height/age < 2SD in cm/month, cm/kg, mean (SD)

1.03(0.97;1.08)

0.372

1.02(0.97;1.07)

0.486

0.98(0.89;1.09)

0.768

1.02(0.97;1.07)

0.442

Diarrhea

1.84(1.22;2.78)

0.003*

1.97(1.12;3.46)

0.019*

3.97(1.12;14.02)

0.032*

1.36(0.8;2.3)

0.259

Dehydration

0.74(0.28;1.94)

0.538

0.65(0.22;1.98)

0.452

1.35(0.17;10.4)

0.775

0.58(0.09;3.51)

0.550

Edema

6.27(1.56;25.23)

0.010*

6.04(1.38;26.39)

0.017*

0.82(0.01;52.99)

0.926

2.2(0.28;17.39)

0.455

Convulsion

3.46(1.21;9.87)

0.021*

2.06(0.6;7.03)

0.248

0.68(0.02;29.4)

0.844

2.34(0.5;11.01)

0.281

Axillary temperature [39.5,42]

2.25(1.34;3.79)

0.002*

3.01(1.51;5.97)

0.002*

0.97(0.15;6.39)

0.975

1.41(0.68;2.9)

0.356

Pallor of conjunctiva

1.53(0.74;3.14)

0.249

1.31(0.55;3.15)

0.540

2.76(0.49;15.53)

0.250

1.01(0.31;3.31)

0.982

Splenomegaly

1.78(0.73;4.300)

0.638

2.28(0.9;5.77)

0.081

0.34(0.01;7.9)

0.501

1.17(0.25;5.53)

0.840

Hepatomegaly

1.17(0.50;2.75)

0.725

1.03(0.38;2.78)

0.951

0.25(0.01;5.15)

0.372

0.79(0.18;3.37)

0.746

Laboratory basic data*

Hemoglobin < 8

1.34(0.68;2.62)

0.394

1.96(0.82;4.69)

0.133

0.95(0.2;4.63)

0.954

1.05(0.44;2.48)

0.913

  1. *Statistically significant
  2. ahemoglobin value was g/dl; leucocyte value was 103/μl
  3. BSI Bloodstream infection, GII Gastro-intestinal infection, UTI Urinary tract infection
  4. Note: The different data were adjusted for gender, age and weigh for the multivariate analysis