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Table 1 Demographic characteristics and health-seeking behaviour of domestically-acquired (n = 300) and travel-related (n = 324) cases of Salmonella Enteritidis

From: The epidemiology of travel-related Salmonella Enteritidis in Ontario, Canada, 2010–2011

 

Travel

Domestic

Total

P value*

 

n

%

n

%

n

%

 

Age (median)

       

Median (yrs) 

35

 

21

   

<0.001

0–11

51

15.7

93

31.0

144

23.1

 

12–19

25

7.7

47

15.7

72

11.5

 

20–34

83

25.6

64

21.3

147

23.6

 

35–54

105

32.4

54

18.0

159

25.5

 

55–64

40

12.3

17

5.7

57

9.1

 

65+

20

6.2

25

8.3

45

7.2

 

Male**

175

54.2

153

51.3

328

52.6

0.479

Symptoms §

       

Diarrhea

320

99.4

291

98.0

611

98.7

0.124

Abdominal Cramps

280

88.3

252

86.9

532

87.6

0.686

Nausea

213

66.4

152

51.7

365

59.4

<0.001

Vomiting

127

39.7

116

39.3

243

39.5

0.926

Fever

219

68.4

217

73.1

436

70.7

0.523

Other

214

68.2

183

62.5

397

65.4

0.140

Visited Emergency Room†

105

33.4

131

45.2

236

36.8

0.003

Admitted to hospital

16

5.1

45

15.2

61

10.0

<0.001

  1. *Chi-squared test p-value; **Three cases missing sex (2 DA, 1 TR). § Five cases were missing diarrhea (3 DA, 2 TR) data, 17 abdominal cramps (10 DA, 7 TR), 9 nausea (6 DA, 3 TR), 9 vomiting (5 DA, 4 TR), 7 fever (3 DA, 4 TR); and 17 other (7DA, 10TR). † Twenty cases missing emergency-room information (10 TR, 10 DA); ‡Fourteen cases missing admission to hospital information (11 TR, 3 DA).