Risk factor | Group | Number of children/ chickens | Number of cases | Isolation frequency (%) | P-value | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age (months) | 3–13 | 51 | 7 | 13.7 | p = 0.953 | NS |
13–24 | 89 | 19 | 21.4 | |||
25–36 | 54 | 12 | 22.2 | |||
37–48 | 41 | 8 | 19.5 | |||
49–60 | 33 | 5 | 15.2 | |||
Sex | Female | 123 | 17 | 13.8 | p = 0.046 | S |
Male | 145 | 34 | 23.5 | |||
Keeping chickens | At home | 84 | 10 | 11.9 | p = 0.129 | NS |
At neighbourhood | 58 | 14 | 24.1 | |||
Not at all | 126 | 27 | 21.4 | |||
Keeping other animals | Kept | 88 | 15 | 17.1 | p = 0.496 | NS |
Not kept | 180 | 37 | 20.5 | |||
Boiling/treating drinking water | Boiled/treated | 161 | 27 | 16.7 | p = 0.249 | NS |
Unboiled/untreated | 107 | 24 | 22.4 | |||
Diarrhoea | Diarrhoeic | 78 | 10 | 12.8 | p = 0.066 | NS |
Non-diarrhoeic | 190 | 41 | 21.6 | |||
Thermophilic Campylobacter isolates | C. jejuni | 51 | 40 | 78.4 | p = 0.000 | S |
C. coli | 51 | 10 | 19.6 | |||
C. lari | 51 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
Unidentified | 51 | 1 | 2.0 | |||
 | Overall | 268 | 51 | 19.0 |  |  |