Feline gastrointestinal parasitism in Greece: emergent zoonotic species and associated risk factors

Parasites & Vectors

Table 5 Regression coefficients of the predictors used in Cystoisospora spp. model for the full dataset (f) and the training sample (ts) used for the validation of the model

	B^a	SE	Wald	P	Odds ratio	95% CI for Exp(B)
< 6 months (f)	1.16	0.254	20.97	< 0.001	3.203	1.946–5.272
< 6 months (ts)	1.27	0.277	20.91	< 0.001	3.546	0.797–1.311
> 6 months	Ref.
Owned cats (f)	-0.77	0.170	20.59	< 0.001	0.462	0.331–0.645
Owned cats (ts)	-0.77	0.189	16.49	< 0.001	0.465	0.321–0.673
Stray	Ref.
Male (f)	0.33	0.163	4.07	0.044	1.390	1.009–1.913
Male (ts)	0.13	0.181	0.50	0.479	1.137	0.797–1.620
Female	Ref.
No Aelurostrongylus abstrusus infection (f)	1.37	0.735	3.47	0.062	3.930	0.931–16.587
No Aelurostrongylus abstrusus infection (ts)	1.15	0.746	2.36	0.125	3.144	0.729–13.560
Aelurostrongylus abstrusus infection	Ref.
Constant (f)	-2.92	0.736	15.72	0.001	0.054
Constant (ts)	-2.54	0.745	11.66	0.001	0.079

Abbreviations: SE standard error, CI confidence interval, Ref. reference category
^aRegression coefficient

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