Differences between Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage and IgE-sensitization to Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin on risk factors and effects in adult population

Table 4 Association with respiratory symptoms and Staphylococcus aureus groups by multivariate analysis

	Cough		Sputum production
	Adjusted Model* OR (95% CI)	P value	Adjusted model* OR (95% CI)	P value
SA carriage	3.044 (1.137–8.153)	0.027	2.429 (1.008–5.854)	0.048
SE IgE-sensitization	1.943 (0.716–5.273)	0.192	2.452 (1.066–5.640)	0.035
SA carriage and SE IgE-sensitization group
SA carriage (+), SE IgE-sensitization (+)	6.303 (1.231–32.272)	0.027	7.258 (2.163–24.361)	0.001
SA carriage (+), SE IgE-sensitization (−)	3.824 (1.093–13.383)	0.036	1.350 (0.398–4.574)	0.630
SA carriage (−), SE IgE-sensitization (+)	2.632 (0.693–9.990)	0.155	1.586 (0.560–4.493)	0.386
SA carriage (−), SE IgE-sensitization (−)	Ref.		Ref.

SA carriage Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage, SE Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin, SE IgE-sensitization IgE-sensitization to Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin, OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval. Bold indicates significant differences (P-value < 0.05). *Adjusted for age, sex, body mass index, smoking status, environmental group, asthma and allergic rhinitis

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