Table 2.

Prevalence of antibodies against tick-borne encephalitis virus in wild cervids hunted in 2008–2009 in Finland

	na	n positive	Seroprevalence (%)	95 % confidence interval (Mid-P Exact)
Moose
Male	672	7	1.04	0.46–2.05
Female	512	2	0.39	0.07–1.29
Adult	729	7	0.96	0.42–1.89
Calf	453	2	0.44	0.07–1.45
All	1213	9	0.74	0.36–1.36
White-tailed deer
Male	77	1	1.30	0.07–6.24
Female	57	0	0.00	0.00–5.12
Adult	71	1	1.41	0.07–6.75
Calf	64	0	0.00	0.00–4.57
All	135	1	0.74	0.04–3.60
Roe deer
Male	11	0	0.00	0.00–23.84
Female	6	0	0.00	0.00–39.30
Adult	14	0	0.00	0.00–19.26
Calf	3	0	0.00	0.00–63.16
All	17	0	0.00	0.00–16.16
All	1371	10	0.73	0.37–1.30

^aBackground information was unavailable for some of the animals investigated