Table 2.
Detection of A. phagocytophilum in sheep and goats
| Location | Species | No. infected/(%) | 16S rRNA variant | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Province | County | No. tested | No. positive (%) | ||
| Chongqing | Wanzhou | Goat | 24 | 7 (29.2) | variant 1 |
| Jiangjin | Goat | 30 | 0 (0) | – | |
| Guangxi | Pingxiang | Goat | 11 | 0 (0) | – |
| Jingxi | Goat | 19 | 2 (10.5) | variant 1 | |
| Guizhou | Dushan | Goat | 17 | 1 (5.9) | variant 1 |
| Rongjiang | Goat | 25 | 6 (24) | variant 1 | |
| Hebei | Wangdu | Sheep | 19 | 0 (0) | – |
| Hainan | Haikou | Goat | 28 | 4 (14.3) | variant 1, 2 |
| Sichuan | Hejiang | Goat | 32 | 18 (56.3) | variant 1 |
| Panzhihua | Goat | 32 | 1 (3.1) | variant 1 | |
| Shanxi | Lvliang | Sheep | 50 | 15 (30.0) | variant 1, 2 |
| Guangdong | Qingyuan | Goat | 30 | 6 (20.0) | variant 1 |
| Zhaoqing | Goat | 33 | 13 (39.4) | variant 1 | |
| Yunnan | Ruili | Goat | 4 | 3 (75.0) | variant 1 |
| Fuyuan | Goat | 7 | 2 (28.6) | variant 1 | |
| Yanshan | Goat | 15 | 3 (20.0) | variant 1 | |
| Hubei | Suizhou | Sheep | 45 | 25 (55.6) | variant 1 |
| Total | 421 | 106 (25.2) | |||