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Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 transmission dynamics in rural villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with high nonhuman primate exposure.

PLoS Negl Trop Dis · 2021 · PMC7872225 · PMID 33507996

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marginally significantp-value= 0.0534so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)
- line 243: "Only a marginally significant association 244 between SFV and HTLV co-infection was observed (χ2 p-value= 0.0534).". => Is a Fisher exact test not better suited here? > m <- matrix(data = c(3,14,162,2872), nrow = 2, ncol = 2, byrow = T) > m [,1] [,2] [1,] 3 14 [2,] 162 2872 > fisher.test(x = m) Fisher's Exact Test for Count Data data: m p-value = 0.06041 alternative hypothesis: true odds ratio is not equal to 1 95 percent confidence interval: 0.6925923 13.7944348 sample estimates: odds ratio 3.795586 ########### discussion: ########### - "The overall HTLV seroprevalence in our population was 5.4% ....

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