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Table 4 Multivariate analysis associated with multidrug-resistant organism bacteraemia

From: Factors associated with bacteraemia due to multidrug-resistant organisms among bacteraemic patients with multidrug-resistant organism carriage: a case control study

Variable

MDR bacteraemia

Univariate analysis

Multivariate analysis

Odds Ratio

P value

Odds Ratio

P value

Sex (male)

31/61 (50.8%)

0.70 [0.35; 1.79]

0.5683

1.04 [0.40; 2.70]

0.9403

Immunosuppression

23/33 (69.7%)

2.86 [1.17; 6.95]

0.0207

2.96 [1.08; 8.13]

0.0354

Severity

19/26 (73.1%)

3.13 [1.17; 8.36]

0.0232

2.32 [0.78; 6.88]

0.1303

Colonization MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa

10/12 (83.3%)

5.24 [1.08; 25.32]

0.0395

2.95 [0.49; 17.77]

0.2386

Hospital-acquired

38/62 (61.3%)

2.49 [1.07; 5.78]

0.034

2.62 [1.03; 6.64]

0.0427

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