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. 2018 Mar 14;13(3):e0193957. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193957

Table 2. Comparison of the prevalence of mcr-4 and mcr-5 in nasal/oropharyngeal and anal/cloacal swabs of pigs and poultry.

Positivity of mcr pig chicken duck goose pigeon
nasal anal total* Oro** cloacal total oro cloacal total oro cloacal total oro cloacal total
(1339) (213) (1454) (1350) (1383) (1498) (122) (122) (130) (109) (109) (109) (66) (82) (99)
mcr-4 605 37 621 137 143 257 9 11 20 37 30 54 6 11 17
45.2% 17.4% 42.7% 10.1% 10.3% 17.2% 7.4% 9.0% 15.4% 33.9% 27.5% 49.5% 9.1% 13.4% 17.2%
mcr-5 455 59 478 93 58 148 8 3 10 16 6 19 1 2 3
34.0% 27.7% 32.9% 6.9% 4.2% 9.9% 6.6% 2.5% 7.7% 14.7% 5.5% 17.4% 1.5% 2.4% 3.0%
mcr-4 and mcr-5 255 27 266 28 6 33 3 1 4 9 2 10 1 0 1
19.0% 12.7% 18.3% 2.1% 0.4% 2.2% 2.5% 0.8% 3.1% 8.3% 1.8% 9.2% 1.2% 0.0% 1.0%

* Total means the total number of the assayed animals. Under the column of Total, when one of the Nasal/Oral and Anal/cloacal swabs was positive, this animal was considered to be positive

** oro indicates oropharyngeal swab