Corrigendum to ";SARS-CoV-2 transmission from infected owner to household dogs and cats is associated with food sharing" [International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 122 (2022) Pages 295-299].

The authors regret there were editing mistakes in the published version of the article “SARS-CoV-2 transmission from infected owner to household dogs and cats is associated with food sharing” [[1]Orlando SA Calderon JL Leon-Sosa A et al.SARS-CoV-2 transmission from infected owner to household dogs and cats is associated with food sharing.Int J Infect Dis. 2022; 122: 295-299Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (15) Google Scholar]. Table 2 should be replaced by the one in this Corrigendum. In the original Table 2, the odds ratio values were mistaken as Chi Square coefficient values. Some of the p values had been wrongly copied from the statistical analysis output. Two main errors in the results had arisen in the study, that 1) the male sex was erroneously associated with higher transmission risk; and 2) food sharing with the owner was a risk factor in multivariate and not the bivariate analysis by mistake. These editing mistakes also affected the confident intervals for the odds ratio. The logistic regression model result was not included in the article, that yielded the higher coefficient value of 6.22 for the risk factor of food sharing. Separately, the description of the statistical analysis should be revised as follow: Free version of the statistical packages MiniTab 21.3 and Epiinfo 7.2.5.0 were used; risk factor analysis was performed using a Chi Square test both in bivariate and multivariate mode; a logistic regression model was also performed to address the risk factor association to SARS-CoV-2 transmission. The authors confirm that the errors were not related to the quality of the original data and did not affect the conclusion of the article. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.Table 1Bi- and multivariate analysis of association of risk factor for SARS-CoV-2 transmission. (* means statistically significant association; p values are for the Chi Square test).Risk FactorSARS-CoV-2 (+)SARS-CoV-2 (−)Bivariate analysisMultivariate analysisOR (IC 95%)p valueOR (IC 95%)p valueSpecieDog13293.13(0.34-28.18)0.290.66(0.01-24.12)0.82Cat17SexFemale5161.16(0.2-6.80)0.860.79(0.07-7.91)0.84Male920Bed sharing with ownerYes11202.87(0.70-14.74)0.138.02(0.42-150.56)0.022No316Food sharing with ownerYes18426(1.17-30.72)0.021*500.78(2.42-103326.230.011*No340SymptomsYes4101.04(0.26-4.09)0.950.34(0.02-4.90)0.42No1026Trash accessYes3110.70(0.16-3.08)0.640.02(0.00-3.51)0.14No1026Pet isolationYes13321.62(0.16-15.95)0.671.64(0.32-8.44)0.55No14Other petsYes14421.90(0.69-5.20)0.220.04(0.00-4.91)0.19No740Free street accessYes270.69(0.12-3.81)0.678.05(0.11-555.62)0.33No1229 Open table in a new tab SARS-CoV-2 transmission from infected owner to household dogs and cats is associated with food sharingInternational Journal of Infectious DiseasesVol. 122PreviewThe rise of SARS-CoV-2 in the Chinese province of Hubei in December 2019 lead to the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak that prompted the World Health Organization to declare a pandemic on March 11, 2020 (Gorbalenya et al., 2020; Zhou et al., 2020; Ortiz-Prado et al., 2020). By the end of March 2022, more than 470 million cases and 6 million deaths have been reported worldwide ( https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html ). The Americas is one of the most affected regions, with millions of cases and deaths. In Ecuador, more than 700,000 cases and 32,000 deaths were reported by March 2022 ( https://www.salud.gob.ec/actualizacion-de-casos-de-coronavirus-en-ecuador/ ). Full-Text PDF Open Access