Prevalence, risk factors and seasonal variations of different Enteropathogens in Lebanese hospitalized children with acute gastroenteritis

Table 3 Results of the logistic regression analysis with infectious agents as dependent variables according to breast-feed, Rota-vaccine, and sanitary water

Independent variables	Unidentified group I		rotavirus group II		E. histolytica group III		adenovirus group IV		Mixed group V
Independent variables	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Breast-feed*	0.866	0.606-	1.013	0.608-	1.668	1.089-	0.592	0.295-	0.655	0.331-
p-value	0.431	1.238	0.959	1.688	0.019	2.555	0.139	1.185	0.223	1.294
Rotavirus vaccine*	1.224	0.875-	0.377	0.229-	1.114	0.765-	3.505	1.500-	0.558	0.283-
p-value	0.238	1.712	0.000	0.621	0.573	1.624	0.004	8.191	0.092	1.100
Sanitary water*	0.930	0.643-	1.500	0.830-	0.988	0.654-	0.574	0.286-	1.400	0.603-
p-value	0.700	1.346	0.180	2.710	0.955	1.92	0.119	1.153	0.433	3.249

*Reference groups: Breast-feed (Yes), Rota-vaccine (Yes), and Sanitary water (Yes); significant p-values are made bold

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