Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of parameters.
| Cats | Dogs | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | Positive | Negative | |||||
| Number of participants | 48 | 67 | 95 | 75 | ||||
| Mean | sd * | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | |
| Age (years) | 6.2 | 5.5 | 6.3 | 5.4 | 6.8 | 3.9 | 5.2 | 4.1 |
| Infected humans (n) | 2.4 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 1.0 |
| n | prop. ** | n | prop. | n | prop. | n | prop. | |
| Male | 30 | 62.5 | 39 | 58.2 | 45 | 47.4 | 30 | 40.0 |
| One or more chronic diseases | 10 | 20.8 | 16 | 23.9 | 29 | 30.5 | 18 | 24.0 |
| Unsupervised outdoor access | 14 | 29.2 | 32 | 47.8 | 21 | 22.1 | 12 | 16.0 |
| Contact outside the household | 3 | 6.3 | 12 | 17.9 | 35 | 36.8 | 17 | 22.7 |
| Above-average contact intensity | 32 | 66.7 | 31 | 46.3 | 57 | 60.0 | 35 | 46.7 |
| Reduced contact | 12 | 25.0 | 22 | 32.8 | 20 | 21.1 | 28 | 37.3 |
* standard deviation, ** proportion (%).