Bacterial Isolates and Antibiotic Sensitivity among Gambian Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition

Table 3

Univariate and multivariate analysis of factors associated with bacteraemia.

Characteristic	Univariate analysis		Multivariate analysis
	OR for bacteraemia (95% CI)	P ^a	Adjusted OR for bacteraemia^b (95% CI)	P ^a
Sex: (𝑛=117)
Male 63 (53.8%)	1.0		1.0
Female 54 (46.2%)	2.6 (0.84, 8.27)	0.09	1.67	0.35
		6		0
Age: (n = 117)
<12 months 22 (18.8%)	1.09 (0.28, 4.25)	0.89	1.0
≥12 months 95 (81.2%)	1.0	9	1.05 (0.27, 4.05)	0.94
				6
History of cough: (n = 117)
Yes 106 (90.6%)	10.62 (1.34, 83.9)	0.02	1.80 (0.52, 6.18)	0.35
No 11 (9.4%)	1.0	5	1.0	1
Chronic cough: (n = 70)
≤30 days 59 (84.3%)	1.0
>30 days 11 (15.7%)	2.8 (0.86, 11.4)	0.15	—
		1
History of diarrhoea: (𝑛=117)
Yes 81 (69.2%)	0.87 (0.28, 2.77)	0.81	—
No 36 (30.8%)	1.0	8
Persistent diarrhoea: (𝑛=80)
Yes 31 (38.7%)	4.5 (1.06, 18.87)	0.04	2.21 (0.75, 6.53)	0.15
No 49 (61.3%)	1.0	1	1.0	1
History of vomiting: (𝑛=117)
Yes 70 (59.8%)	5.13 (1.1, 23.92)	0.03	5.78 (0.98, 33.99)	0.05
No 47 (40.2%)	1.0	7	1.0	2
Hepatomegaly: (𝑛=117)
Yes 51 (43.6%)	2.98 (0.95, 9.34)	0.06	0.78 (0.25, 2.36)	0.65
No 66 (56.4%)	1.0	2	1.0	6
Splenomegaly: (𝑛=117)
Yes 5 (4.3%)	12.5 (1.89, 82.47)	0.00	3.62 (0.25, 52.48)	0.34
No 112 (95.7%)	1.0	9	1.0	5
Anaemia: [Hb < 8 g/dL] (𝑛=117)
Yes 25 (21.4%)	4.08 (1.31, 12.70)	0.01	3.41 (0.92, 12.64)	0.06
No 92 (78.6%)	1.0	5		6
HIV positive: (𝑛=81)
Yes 24 (29.6%)	1.21 (0.28, 5.31)	0.79	—
No 57 (70.4%)	1.0	7
Malaria parasitaemia (𝑛=108)
Yes 4 (3.7%)	2.56 (0.25, 26.58)	0.43	—
No 104 (96.3%)		2
Axillary temperature ≥ 37.5°C (𝑛=115)
Yes 31 (27%)	1.42 (0.44, 4.55)	0.55	—
No 84 (73%)	1.0	2
White blood cell count ≥11 × 10^9/L
Yes 46 (40%)	0.81 (0.25, 2.60)	0.72	—
No 69 (60%)	1.0	7

^aChi-squared or Fisher’s exact test.
^bAdjusted for all factors with a P value <0.1 in the univariate analysis.