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Table 5 Factors associated with measles diagnosis among children 1–4 years old

From: Measles incidence in South Africa: a six-year review, 2015—2020

   

Univariate

 

Multivariate

 

Overall

Measles cases

OR (95% CI)

P-value

OR (95% CI)

P-value

Gender, n (%)

 Male

4411 (54.28)

24/4079 (0.59)

Ref

 

Ref

 

 Female

3716 (45.72)

35/3393 (1.03)

1.76 (1.05–2.97)

0.0334

2.06 (1.20–3.55)

0.0090

Vaccinated, n (%)

 Yes

3575 (98.08)

20/3321 (0.60)

Ref

 

-

 

 No

70 (1.92)

2/68 (2.94)

5.00 (1.15–21.84)

0.0323

-

 

Number of measles vaccines, n (%)

 1 dose

329 (12.35)

4/303 (1.32)

2.60 (0.822–8.207)

0.1041

-

 

 2 doses

2334 (87.65)

11/2146 (0.51)

Ref

 

-

 

Vaccination year, n (%)

  < 2016

1814 (50.74)

6/1774 (0.34)

Ref

 

-

 

  ≥ 2016

1761 (49.26)

14/1547 (0.90)

2.323 (1.299–4.152)

0.0045

-

 

Age years median (IQR)

(n)

3 (2–4)

(n = 7904)

2 (1–3)

(n = 56)

0.671 (0.529–0.852)

0.0010

0.668 (0.526–0.847)

0.0009

  1. NB: Of 4411 males and 3716 females, only 4079 and 3393 females had data for measles respectively; Of 3575 vaccinees and 70 non-vaccinees, 3321 and 68 had data for measles respectively; 303/329 and 2146/2334 recipients of 1 or two measles doses had measles data; 1774/1814 and 1547/1761 had measles data for the period < 2016 and ≥ 2016; Under age, the table shows the median (IQR) age of 56 measles cases;