Table 1.
Results of 1566 rodents captured in four different regions in Sweden during 2013–2015 and examined for Echinococcus multilocularis. Number of examined rodents (n), number of positive rodents (N), percent positive (%), and 95% confidence interval (95 CI) are given for each region and for each species.
| Uddevalla |
Katrineholm |
Gnesta/Nyköping |
Vetlanda/Växjö |
|||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | N | % (95 CI) | n | N | % (95 CI) | n | N | % (95 CI) | n | N | % (95 CI) | |
| Arvicola amphibius | 147 | 0 | 0 (≤2.5) | 159 | 3 | 1.9 (0.4–5.4) | 131 | 5 | 3.8 (1.3–8.7) | 2 | 0 | 0 (≤84.2) |
| Microtus agrestis | 60 | 0 | 0 (≤6.0) | 73 | 0 | 0 (≤5.0) | 44 | 1 | 2.3 (0.1–12.0) | 10 | 0 | 0 (≤30.8) |
| Myodes glareolus | 205 | 0 | 0 (≤1.8) | 166 | 0 | 0 (≤2.2) | 124 | 0 | 0 (≤2.9) | 160 | 0 | 0 (≤2.3) |
| Apodemus spp. | 78 | 0 | 0 (≤4.6) | 84 | 0 | 0 (≤4.3) | 36 | 0 | 0 (≤9.7) | 87 | 0 | 0 (≤4.2) |
| TOTAL | 490 | 0 | 482 | 3 | 335 | 6 | 259 | 0 | ||||