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Volume 29, Number 12—December 2023
CME ACTIVITY - Research

Risk Factors for Enteric Pathogen Exposure among Children in Black Belt Region of Alabama, USA

Drew Capone, Toheedat Bakare, Troy Barker, Amy Hutson Chatham, Ryan Clark, Lauren Copperthwaite, Abeoseh Flemister, Riley Geason, Emery Hoos, Elizabeth Kim, Alka Manoj, Sam Pomper, Christina Samodal, Simrill Smith, Claudette Poole, and Joe BrownComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA (D. Capone); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA (T. Bakare, T. Barker, R. Clark, L. Copperthwaite, A. Flemister, R. Geason, E. Hoos, E. Kim, A. Manoj, S. Pomper, C. Samodal, J. Brown); University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA (A. Hutson Chatham, C. Poole); Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (S. Smith)

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Table 3

Risk factors for detection of >1 enteric pathogen in stool specimens of children in a study conducted in Lowndes, Wilcox, and Perry Counties, Alabama, USA, January 2019–December 2021*

Variable Reference Exposure RR (95% CI) aRR (95% CI)
Pay a water bill
 Yes
 No
 1.8 (1.2–2.5)
 1.7 (1.1–2.5)
Sanitation
 Sewer connection
 Cesspit NA NA
Other 3.4 (0.57–20) 5.2 (0.88–30)
Septic tank 0.89 (0.61–1.3) 0.95 (0.64–1.4)
Straight pipe
 0.95 (0.55–1.6)
 0.95 (0.55–1.7)
Child’s screen time
 <2 h
 2–4 h 0.74 (0.48–1.1) 0.79 (0.51–1.2)
>4 h
 0.74 (0.48–1.1)
 0.73 (0.47–1.1)
Child’s sex
 Male
 Female
 0.89 (0.65–1.2)
 0.89 (0.65–1.2)
International travel in past year
 No
 Yes
 0.89 (0.32–2.5)
 0.93 (0.34–2.5)
Raw sewage in home or yard in past year
 No
 Yes
 1.1 (0.68–1.9)
 1.1 (0.66–2.0)
Child’s age <5 y 5–10 y 0.71 (0.40–1.3) 0.76 (0.41–1.4)
>10 y 0.82 (0.47–1.4) 0.90 (0.49–1.6)

*Unadjusted RRs are from bivariate models, whereas aRRs are from full model including all covariates. aRR, adjusted risk ratio; RR, risk ratio.

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