TABLE 2.
Comparison of Coxiella burnetii shedding routes in aborting and nonaborting goats assessed by PCR
| Shedding route paira | No. of goats
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aborting
|
Nonaborting
|
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| − − | + + | + − | − + | − − | + + | + − | − + | |
| Vaginal mucus-feces | 17 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 30 | 7 | 3 | 1 |
| Vaginal mucus-milk | 15 | 6 | 16 | 13 | 33 | 4 | 15 | 17 |
| Feces-milk | 13 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 3 | 5 | 14 |
a
+, goats from which at least one sample tested PCR positive throughout the study; −, goats from which all of the samples tested PCR negative throughout the study. According to the order of the names in the considered sample pair, the first sign of the shedding route pattern corresponds to the first sample type and the second sign corresponds to the second one.