TABLE 4.
Transmission of KoRV-B via adult-to-adult contact in a cohort of 49 wild koalas during 2013–2014 sampling and subsequently during 2016–2017 samplinga
| KoRV-B status of koala | No. of koalas | Sex or no. F/no. M |
C. pecorum disease status, 2013–2014 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| By PCR | By clinical symptoms | |||
| Negative at both time points | 33 | 23/10 | ||
| Positive at both time points | 11 | 10/1 | ||
| Negative to positive | 4 | 3/1 | ||
| Cowboy | M | Positive | Negative | |
| Mali | F | NA | Positive | |
| Princess Shrek | F | Negative | Positive | |
| Regina | F | Positive | Negative | |
| Positive to undetectable | 1 | 0/1 | ||
| Barnacles | M | NA | Negative | |
a
NA, not available; F, female; M, male.