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Table 2 The association between the prevalence of C. difficile and ribotype 033 and the number of calves

From: Quantification of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile in feces of calves of different age and determination of predominant Clostridioides difficile ribotype 033 relatedness and transmission between family dairy farms using multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis

Outcome

Variable

Estimate

SE

p

(Exp)estimate

95% CI

C. difficile

Number of Calves

  

< 0.0001

  

 linear

0.33

0.08

< 0.0001

1.39

1.18–1.66

 non-linear

−0.39

0.16

0.0174

0.68

0.48–0.93

Time of sampling

0.02

0.01

0.0251

1.02

1.01–1.04

Ribotype 033

Number of Calves

0.13

0.06

0.0323

1.13

1.01–1.27

Time of sampling

0.01

0.01

0.4932

1.01

0.98–1.04

  1. The time of sampling is included only to control for the effect of the meteorolical season. The linear/non-linear effect of C. difficile prevalence should be estimated from Fig. 2
  2. SE Standard error
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