Table 1.
Prevalence of hemoplasma species in commercial pig farms of Korea from 2014 to 2018
Group | No. tested | Mycoplasma suis | Mycoplasma parvum | Novel hemotropic Mycoplasma haemosuis | |||||||
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No. positive (%) | 95% CI | Chi-square test | No. positive (%) | 95% CI | Chi-square test | No. positive (%) | 95% CI | Chi-square test | |||
Breed | Breeding pigs | 720 | 2 (0.3) | 0–0.7 | χ2(1) = 1.002, P = 0.3169 | 21 (2.9) | 1.7–4.2 | χ2(1) = 0.1510, P = 0.6976 | 1 (0.1) | 0–0.4 | χ2(1) = 1.594, P = 0.2068 |
Fattening pigs | 1147 | 1 (0.1) | 0–0.3 | 30 (2.6) | 1.7–3.5 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Region | Northern | 591 | 1 (0.2) | 0–0.5 | χ2(3) = 0.8050, P = 0.8483 | 6 (1.0) | 0.2–1.8 | χ2(3) = 19.432, P = 0.0002 | 0 | 0 | χ2(3) = 1.064, P = 0.7859 |
Central | 306 | 0 | 0 | 3 (1.0) | 0–2.1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Southern | 905 | 2 (0.2) | 0–0.5 | 39 (4.3) | 3.0–5.6 | 1 (0.1) | 0–0.3 | ||||
Jeju Island | 65 | 0 | 0 | 3 (4.6) | 0–9.7 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Total | 1867 | 3 (0.2) | 0–0.3 | 51 (2.7) | 2.0–3.5 | 1 (0.1) | 0–0.2 |
Abbreviations: 95% CI, 95% confidence interval
Note: Significant P-value (P < 0.05) is indicated in bold