Table 2.

Sample size by host species and Bio-region studied, apparent prevalence obtained, and Brucella culture results in Iberian wild ungulate species.

Common name	Latin name	Serum samples by region						Mean prevalence (95% CI)	Samples submitted for culture	Nr. of isolates (species and biovar)
		1	2	3	4	5	Total
Barbary sheep	Ammotragus lervia	0	0	8	0	0	8	0 (0-36)	0
Mouflon	Ovis aries	0	0	75	0	0	75	0 (0-5)	0
Iberian wild goat1	Capra pyrenaica	0	41	2	1042	1	1086	0.1 (0-0.6)	12	1 (B. melitensis biovar 1)
Chamois3	Rupicapra pyrenaica	57	1353	0	0	0	1410	0.8 (0.4-1.4)	11
Roe deer	Capreolus capreolus	77	152	5	9	42	285	0 (0-1)	0
Fallow deer	Dama dama	92	107	47	32	64	342	0 (0-1)	0
Red deer	Cervus elaphus	452	1591	2378	932	468	5821	0.4 (0.3-0.6)	814	1 (B. abortus biovar 1)
Wild boar	Sus scrofa	658	1920	1499	132	245	4454	33 (31.6-34.4)	5895	104 (B. suis biovar 2)
TOTAL		1336	5164	4014	2147	820	13481		682	106

¹ Includes mainly the Mediterranean subspecies Capra pyrenaica hispanica. ² All animals were sampled randomly during hunting or at game farms but for the ibex tissues submitted for culture, which came from a clinical case with suspected brucellosis. ³ Cantabrian chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica parva) in Bio-region 1 and Pyrenean chamois (R. p. pyrenaica) in Bio-region 2. ⁴ Thirty-one out of these 81 samples came from iELISA-positive animals and 50 from iELISA-negative ones. ⁵ A total of 539 out of these 589 samples were from iELISA-positive animals and 50 from iELISA-negative ones.