A Case-Control Study of Risk Factors Associated with Scrub Typhus Infection in Beijing, China

To investigate the risk factors of scrub typhus infection in Beijing, China, a case-control study was carried out. Cases (n = 56) were defined as persons who were diagnosed by PCR and serological method within three years. Three neighborhood control subjects were selected by matching for age and occ...

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Autores principales: Lyu, Yanning, Tian, Lili, Zhang, Liqin, Dou, Xiangfeng, Wang, Xiaomei, Li, Weihong, Zhang, Xiuchun, Sun, Yulan, Guan, Zengzhi, Li, Xinyu, Wang, Quanyi
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3653850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23691083
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063668
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author Lyu, Yanning
Tian, Lili
Zhang, Liqin
Dou, Xiangfeng
Wang, Xiaomei
Li, Weihong
Zhang, Xiuchun
Sun, Yulan
Guan, Zengzhi
Li, Xinyu
Wang, Quanyi
author_facet Lyu, Yanning
Tian, Lili
Zhang, Liqin
Dou, Xiangfeng
Wang, Xiaomei
Li, Weihong
Zhang, Xiuchun
Sun, Yulan
Guan, Zengzhi
Li, Xinyu
Wang, Quanyi
author_sort Lyu, Yanning
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description To investigate the risk factors of scrub typhus infection in Beijing, China, a case-control study was carried out. Cases (n = 56) were defined as persons who were diagnosed by PCR and serological method within three years. Three neighborhood control subjects were selected by matching for age and occupation. Living at the edge of the village, living in the houses near grassland, vegetable field or ditch, house yard without cement floor, piling weeds in the house or yard, all of these were risk factors for scrub typhus infection. Working in vegetable fields and hilly areas, and harvesting in autumn posed the highest risks, with odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of 3.7 (1.1–11.9), 8.2 (1.4–49.5), and 17.2 (5.1–57.9), respectively. These results would be useful for the establishment of a detail control strategy for scrub typhus infection in Beijing, China.
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spelling pubmed-36538502013-05-20 A Case-Control Study of Risk Factors Associated with Scrub Typhus Infection in Beijing, China Lyu, Yanning Tian, Lili Zhang, Liqin Dou, Xiangfeng Wang, Xiaomei Li, Weihong Zhang, Xiuchun Sun, Yulan Guan, Zengzhi Li, Xinyu Wang, Quanyi PLoS One Research Article To investigate the risk factors of scrub typhus infection in Beijing, China, a case-control study was carried out. Cases (n = 56) were defined as persons who were diagnosed by PCR and serological method within three years. Three neighborhood control subjects were selected by matching for age and occupation. Living at the edge of the village, living in the houses near grassland, vegetable field or ditch, house yard without cement floor, piling weeds in the house or yard, all of these were risk factors for scrub typhus infection. Working in vegetable fields and hilly areas, and harvesting in autumn posed the highest risks, with odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of 3.7 (1.1–11.9), 8.2 (1.4–49.5), and 17.2 (5.1–57.9), respectively. These results would be useful for the establishment of a detail control strategy for scrub typhus infection in Beijing, China. Public Library of Science 2013-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3653850/ /pubmed/23691083 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063668 Text en © 2013 Lyu et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Lyu, Yanning
Tian, Lili
Zhang, Liqin
Dou, Xiangfeng
Wang, Xiaomei
Li, Weihong
Zhang, Xiuchun
Sun, Yulan
Guan, Zengzhi
Li, Xinyu
Wang, Quanyi
A Case-Control Study of Risk Factors Associated with Scrub Typhus Infection in Beijing, China
title A Case-Control Study of Risk Factors Associated with Scrub Typhus Infection in Beijing, China
title_full A Case-Control Study of Risk Factors Associated with Scrub Typhus Infection in Beijing, China
title_fullStr A Case-Control Study of Risk Factors Associated with Scrub Typhus Infection in Beijing, China
title_full_unstemmed A Case-Control Study of Risk Factors Associated with Scrub Typhus Infection in Beijing, China
title_short A Case-Control Study of Risk Factors Associated with Scrub Typhus Infection in Beijing, China
title_sort case-control study of risk factors associated with scrub typhus infection in beijing, china
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3653850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23691083
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063668
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