Table-4.
Animal | Methods | Category | Muzaffargarh | Lodhran | Bahawalpur | ||||||
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Prevalence | Proportion | p-value | Prevalence | Proportion | p-value | Prevalence | Proportion | p-value | |||
Goat | Microscopic | Positive | 3 | 0.19 | 0.021* | 4 | 0.25 | 0.077NS | 2 | 0.13 | 0.004** |
Negative | 13 | 0.81 | 12 | 0.75 | 14 | 0.88 | |||||
Total | 16 | 1.00 | 16 | 1.00 | 16 | 1.00 | |||||
PCR | Positive | 2 | 0.13 | 0.004** | 1 | 0.06 | 0.001** | 1 | 0.06 | 0.001** | |
Negative | 14 | 0.88 | 15 | 0.94 | 15 | 0.94 | |||||
Total | 16 | 1.00 | 16 | 1.00 | 16 | 1.00 | |||||
Sheep | Microscopic | Positive | 5 | 0.31 | 0.210NS | 1 | 0.06 | 0.001** | 3 | 0.19 | 0.021* |
Negative | 11 | 0.69 | 15 | 0.94 | 13 | 0.81 | |||||
Total | 16 | 1.00 | 16 | 1.00 | 16 | 1.00 | |||||
PCR | Positive | 1 | 0.06 | 0.001** | 0 | 1.00 | 0.000** | 0 | 1.00 | 0.000** | |
Negative | 15 | 0.94 | 16 | 1.00 | 16 | 1.00 | |||||
Total | 16 | 1.00 | 16 | 1.00 | 16 | 1.00 |
NS=Non-significant (p> 0.05),
Significant (p < 0.05),
Highly significant (p < 0.001), PCR=Polymerase chain reaction