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Published in final edited form as: J Wildl Dis. 2012 Apr;48(2):322–334. doi: 10.7589/0090-3558-48.2.322

Table 1.

Springtime stopover site avian influenza virus prevalence among four species of Charadriiformes at Delaware Bay, 2000–2008.

	Ruddy Turnstone		Red Knot		Sanderling		Laughing Gull
Year	n (positive)	Prevalence (%) (95% confidence interval [CI])	n (positive)	Prevalence (%) (95% CI)	n (positive)	Prevalence (%) (95% CI)	n (positive)	Prevalence (%) (95% CI)

2002	736 (75)	10 (8.2–13)	364 (2)	0.5 (0.2–2.0)	248 (2)	0.8 (0.2–2.9)	n/a^a	n/a^a
2007	415 (19)	4.6 (3.0–7.0)	242 (1)	0.4 (0.1–2.3)	191 (0)	0.0 (0.0–2.0)	48 (0)	0.0 (0.0–7.4)
2008	582 (97)	17 (14–20)	277 (2)	0.7 (0.2–3.0)	225 (1)	0.4 (0.1–2.5)	149 (4)^b	2.7 (1.0–6.7)
2000–2008	3,660 (431)	12 (12–13)	2,438 (21)	0.9 (0.6–1.3)	1,269 (15)	1.2 (0.7–1.9)	332 (6)^a	1.8 (0.8–3.9)^a

Laughing Gulls were sampled during 2005–2008 only.

Two cloacal swabs and two fecal swabs positive.