Characteristics of Multidrug Resistant Shigella and Vibrio cholerae O1 Infections in Patients Treated at an Urban and a Rural Hospital in Bangladesh

Table 5

Sociodemographic and clinical features of patients with multidrug resistant Shigella infections in Dhaka compared to those in Matlab, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), 2000–2012.

Indicators	OR (95% CI)	aOR (95% CI)
Male sex	1.24 (0.94, 1.64)	1.52 (1.08, 2.16)*
Vomiting	1.94 (1.47, 2.57)*	1.26 (0.87, 1.82)
Abdominal pain	0.61 (0.46, 0.81)*	0.87 (0.59, 1.28)
Fever (≥38°C)	0.38 (0.26, 0.57)*	0.39 (0.25, 0.65)*
Bloody or mucoid stool	0.24 (0.18, 0.32)*	0.39 (0.26, 0.62)*
Frequency of stool (>10/day)	1.45 (1.11, 1.91)*	1.83 (1.28, 2.59)*
Duration of diarrhea (>24 hours)	1.15 (0.86, 1.55)	1.64 (1.07, 2.52)*
Duration of stay in hospital >24 hrs	0.90 (0.68, 1.19)	0.84 (0.58, 1.20)
Some or severe dehydration	5.42 (4.00, 7.36)*	5.61 (3.75, 8.39)*
Use of intravenous saline for rehydration	5.80 (3.51, 9.66)*	1.53 (0.79, 2.94)
Use of antimicrobials at home	1.38 (1.03, 1.83)*	1.42 (0.97, 2.08)
Red blood cell (1 to >50)	0.17 (0.11, 0.26)*	0.21 (0.08, 0.52)*
Faecal leukocyte (11 to >50)	0.14 (0.08, 0.24)*	0.42 (0.17, 1.07)
Macrophage (1 to 10)	0.36 (0.26, 0.50)*	1.81 (0.98, 3.35)

^∗𝑃<0.05.
aOR: adjusted odds ratio.