Table 4.

Occurrence of TBPs with regard to host attributes. Chi-square analysis determined the presence of association, and P-values are shown

Attribute	No. of dogs	No. (%) infected with at least one TBP	P-value
Origin			<0.001*
Dog pound	50	5 (10.0)
Household	198	70 (28.2)
Age			0.004*
Puppy (< 1 year)	37	18 (48.6)
Juvenile (1–3 years)	59	22 (37.3)
Adult (> 3 years)	152	35 (23.0)
Sex			0.034*
Male	144	36 (25.0)
Female	104	39 (37.5)

^*P < 0.05