Table. Prevalence of serum antibodies against zoonotic pathogen antigens among white-tailed deer on 8 ranches, northern Mexico, 2004–2009*.
| Ranch no. | State | Municipality | Sample size | No. positive/no. tested (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HEV | Brucella spp. | Bovine PPD | PPA3 | ||||
| 1 | Tamaulipas | Guerrero | 1 | 0/1 (0) | 0/1 (0) | 0/1 (0) | 0/1 (0) |
| 2 | Tamaulipas | Guerrero | 106 | 41/71 (57.7) | 0/102 (0) | 9/102 (8.8) | 0/102 (0) |
| 3 | Tamaulipas | Nuevo Laredo | 37 | 21/27 (77.7) | 0 | 0/37 (0) | 0/37 (0) |
| 4 | Nuevo León | Unknown | 35 | 0 | 0 | 3/35 (8.5) | 2/35 (5.7) |
| 5 | Coahuila | Guerrero | 35 | 1/1 (100) | 0/33 (0) | 2/33 (6.0) | 1/33 (3.0) |
| 6 | Coahuila | Guerrero | 50 | 6/17 (35.2) | 0/40 (0) | 3/40 (7.5) | 0/40 (0) |
| 7 | Coahuila | Hidalgo | 17 | 4/6 (66.6) | 1/16 (6.2) | 3/16 (18.7) | 5/16 (31.2) |
| 8 | Coahuila | Guerrero | 66 | 16/19 (84.2) | 0/39 (0) | 7/39 (18.0) | 0/39 (0) |
| NA | Total | NA | 347 | 89/142 (62.7) | 1/231 (0.4) | 27/303 (8.9) | 8/303 (2.6) |
*HEV, hepatitis E virus; PPD, purified protein derivative; PPA3, paratuberculosis protoplasmatic antigen 3; NA, not applicable.