Table 1.
Association between signalment, size, origin, health status and travel history between dogs that were seropositive and seronegative to any of the tick borne diseases testeda
| Characteristic | Categories |
Seropositive (N = 29) |
Seronegative (N = 311) |
Univariate p-valueb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | N (%) | |||
|
Origin |
South |
0 |
156 (96.3) |
<0.001 |
| East |
1 (4) |
24 (96) |
||
| West |
10 (10.9) |
82 (89.1) |
||
| Oulu |
0 |
28 (100) |
||
| Lapland |
0 |
12 (100) |
||
| Åland |
12 (60) |
8 (40) |
||
| Missing data |
|
1 |
||
|
Age |
≤2 years |
6 (5.6) |
101 (94.4) |
0.49 |
| |
2-8 years |
18 (9.6) |
170 (90.4) |
|
| |
>8 years |
4 (9.1) |
40 (90.9) |
|
| |
Missing data |
|
1 |
|
|
Sex |
Male Intact |
7 (5.1) |
130 (94.9) |
0.3896 |
| |
Male castrated |
2 (12.5) |
14 (87.5 |
|
| |
Female intact |
12 (7.9) |
139 (92.1) |
|
| |
Female spayed |
3 (14.3) |
18 (85.7) |
|
| |
Missing data |
5 |
10 |
|
|
Size |
<10 kg |
10 (15.2) |
56 (84.8) |
0.0747 |
| |
10-25 kg |
8 (9.6) |
75 (90.4) |
|
| |
>25 kg |
10 (5.7) |
165 (94.3) |
|
| |
Missing data |
1 |
15 |
|
|
Travel history abroad |
Yes |
4 (14.8) |
23 (85.2) |
0.6179 |
| |
No |
19 (11.4) |
147 (88.6) |
|
| |
Missing data |
|
141 |
|
|
Health status |
Healthy |
28 (10.0) |
251 (90) |
0.0652 |
| |
Sick |
1 (1.6) |
60 (98.4) |
|
| Missing data | 19 (40.4) | 51 (54.8) |
aAll data presented as number of dogs (%). bUnivariate analysis performed with Fisher’s exact test. Results statistically significant are highlighted in bold.