Table 2.
Bovine gammaherpesvirus 4 (BoHV-4) and 1 (BoHV-1) seroprevalence in diseased dairy cattle.
| BoHV-4 seroprevalence |
BoHV-1 seroprevalence |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Immunofluorescence assay results | Antibodies titers | Healthy animals %/(n) | Diseased animals %/(n) | Healthy animals %/(n) | Diseased animals %/(n) |
| Negative | <8 | 70.8/(34) | 49.3/(37) | 39.6/(19) | 40.0/(30) |
| Positive | 8–64 | 14.6/(7) | 21.3/(16) | 43.8/(21) | 41.3/(31) |
| 128–512 | 14.6/(7) | 29.3/(22) | 16.7/(8) | 18.7/(14) | |
| Total | 100 (48) | 100 (75) | 100 (48) | 100 (75) | |
| ORa: 2.494 [1.155–5.386]* | OR: 0.983 [0.4687–2.061] | ||||
aOR, odds ratio. Numbers in brackets represent the 95% confidence interval.
*P < 0.05 (Fisher’s exact test).