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

Table 6

Sociodemographic and clinical features of patients with multidrug resistant Vibrio cholerae O1 infections in Dhaka compared to those in Matlab, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), 2000–2012.

Indicators	Dhaka; 𝑛=1,056 (%)	Matlab; 𝑛=256 (%)	OR (95% CI)	aOR (95% CI)
Male sex	607 (56)	126 (46)	1.39 (1.05, 1.85)*	1.40 (0.79, 2.48)
Vomiting	976 (92)	216 (84)	2.26 (1.47, 3.46)*	1.86 (0.71, 4.84)
Abdominal pain	448 (42)	131 (51)	0.70 (0.53, 0.93)*	0.50 (0.28, 0.89)*
Fever (≥38°C)	7 (1)	16 (6)	0.10 (0.04, 0.26)*	0.09 (0.02, 0.57)*
Watery stool	1048 (99)	245 (96)	5.88 (2.17, 16.19)*	0.27 (0.00, 18.62)
Frequency of stool (>10/day)	592 (56)	237 (93)	2.31 (1.73, 3.10)*	3.32 (1.78, 6.17)*
Duration of diarrhea (>24 hours)	369 (35)	75 (29)	1.30 (0.95, 1.76)*	0.98 (0.49, 1.95)
Duration of stay in hospital >24 hrs	391 (39)	170 (67)	0.31 (0.23, 0.42)*	0.39 (0.22, 0.71)*
Some or severe dehydration	998 (94)	214 (84)	3.44 (2.20, 5.37)*	3.07 (1.13, 8.32)*
Use of intravenous saline for rehydration	828 (79)	152 (59)	2.58 (1.91, 3.48)*	1.90 (0.88, 4.11)
Use of antimicrobials at home	454 (43)	126 (49)	0.78 (0.59, 1.03)	1.35 (0.75, 2.45)
Red blood cell (1 to >50)	456 (44)	167 (66)	0.39 (0.29, 0.53)*	0.19 (0.09, 0.39)*
Faecal leukocyte (11 to >50)	508 (49)	198 (79)	0.26 (0.18, 0.36)*	0.35 (0.17, 0.73)*
Macrophage (1 to 10)	292 (28)	33 (13)	2.58 (1.72, 3.88)*	11.75 (4.87, 28.31)*

^∗𝑃<0.05.
aOR: adjusted odds ratio.