[Analysis on the risk factors of severe acute respiratory syndromes coronavirus infection in workers from animal markets].
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the possible risk factors of severe acute respiratory syndromes coronavirus (SARS-CoV) infection in workers from animal markets.


METHODS
Self-designed questionnaires were used and serum samples were tested. Logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the data.


RESULTS
Results from simple factor logistic regression analysis showed that jobs which dealing with domestic livestock, wild livestock, wild animals, aquatics were related to risk factors of SARS-CoV infection. Results from multifactor logistic regression analysis showed that jobs that dealing with wild livestock and poultry were important risk factors with OR 12.28 and 0.41.


CONCLUSIONS
Job that dealing with palm civets was the main risk factor of SARS-CoV infection in animal market workers.
Wang
Ming
M
Center for Disease Prevention and Control of Guangzhou, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Xu
Hui-Fang
HF
Zhang
Zhou-Bin
ZB
Zou
Xiao-Zhong
XZ
Gao
Yang
Y
Liu
Xiao-Ning
XN
Lu
En-Jie
EJ
Liang
Cai-Yun
CY
Pan
Bing-Ying
BY
Wu
Shi-Jun
SJ
D000822:Animal Husbandry; D000818:Animals; D002353:Carrier State / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000821:virology; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D011200:Poultry; D012307:Risk Factors; D045473:Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D045169:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires