Table 1.
Prevalence and seasonality rates of MERS-CoV infections in livestock markets and slaughterhouses in Saudi Arabia.
| No of samples | Time of samples collection | No of positive samples by BIONOTE® Rapid | Prevalence rate (%) | No of positive samples by RT-qPCR | Prevalence rate (%) | χ2 test | P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region | Jeddah livestock market (Jeddah) | 112 | December 2015 | 43 | 38.1% | 95 | 85% | 369.23 | 0.0000* |
| Al-Ganderia livestock market (Riyadh) | 100 | April 2016 | 24 | 24% | 33 | 33.7% | |||
| Arar livestock market (Northern boundaries) | 20 | June 2016 | 0 | 0% | 2 | 10% | |||
| Najran livestock market (Najran) | 14 | May 2016 | 2 | 14.3% | 4 | 28.6% | |||
| Al-Toki livestock market (Riyadh) | 50 | January 2017 | 19 | 38% | 38 | 76% | |||
| South Riyadh slaughterhouse (Riyadh) | 226 | January–February 2017 | 102 | 45.1% | 207 | 91.5% | |||
| Al-Toki livestock market (Riyadh) | 35 | May 2017 | 4 | 11.4% | 7 | 20% | |||
| Al-Toki livestock market (Riyadh) | 104 | August 2017 | 0 | 0% | 5 | 4.8% | |||
| South Riyadh slaughterhouse (Riyadh) | 37 | August 2017 | 1 | 2.7% | 3 | 8.1% | |||
| Season | |||||||||
| Winter | 537 | December–May | 189 | 35.2% | 384 | 71.5% | 214.82 | 0.0000* | |
| Summer | 161 | June–August | 6 | 3.7% | 10 | 6.2% | |||
| Age | |||||||||
| <2 years | 423 | 156 | 36.9% | 303 | 71.6 | 100.69 | 0.0001* | ||
| >2 years | 275 | 39 | 14.2% | 91 | 33% |
Non significant difference at (P > 0.05).
Significant difference at (P ≤ 0.05).