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. 2012 Mar 19;5:152. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-5-152

Table 1.

Summary of flocks, collected -, positive serum-, and DNA (PCR positive) samples

# positive samples vs. # of samples taken
flock
#		 flock size
(ewes)		 abortion rate
(%)§ 		serum vaginal swab rectal swab afterbirth foetus/foetal swab
1 500 0 1/28 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
2 1000 0 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 0/9 -
3 1800 < 1 4/29 2/11 0/11 0/11 0/11 -
4 1300 0 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
5 1200 3 4/29 3/11 0/11 0/11 0/3 0/4
6 500 0 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
7 450 0 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 0/9 -
8 1100 < 1 3/30 1/11 0/11 0/11 - -
9 1800 0 1/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
10 550 0 4/29 2/11 0/11 0/11 0/3 -
11 700 < 1 2/29 2/11 0/11 0/11 - -
12 330 0 0/30 0/11 0/11 0/11 0/2 -
13* 2500 2 6/30 1/11 11/11 11/11 7/11** -
14 400 < 1 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
15 700 < 1 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
16 750 < 1 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
17 900 < 1 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 0/3 0/2
18 250 < 1 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
19 450 < 1 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 0/1 -
20 1000 < 1 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
21 500 < 1 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
22 406 < 1 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
23 700 < 1 3/29 2/11 0/11 0/11 - -
24 700 0 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
25 550 < 1 5/29 1/11 0/11 0/11 - -
26 1000 1 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
27 317 < 1 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
28 350 6 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 0/1 -
29 420 0 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
30 1178 < 1 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
31 500 < 1 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
32 120 0 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 0/4 -
33 115 < 1 17/29 6/11 1/11 1/11 - -
34 400 < 1 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 0/1 -
35 650 < 1 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
36 133 0 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
37 377 < 1 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 0/2 -
38 409 < 1 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
39& 25 0 25 11 11 - -
40 460 < 1 0/29 0/11 0/11 0/11 - -
total 1158 440 440 71 6

§according to farmers and Thuringian sheep health authority; *history of C. burnetii infection; **7/11 DNA positive, from 3/7 isolation of C. burnetii; - no samples; &excluded from study