Table 2.

Median annual reported numbers of animals tested for rabies and median percentage of positive results in counties, stratified by presence or absence of rabies, presence of raccoon variant rabies (raccoon rabies) and presence of a state diagnostic laboratory

	N	Median total tests reported (IQR)	Wilcoxon pa	Median percent positive (IQR) b	Wilcoxon p
All counties	713	27 (11, 72)		6.5 (0, 13)
Counties not reporting raccoon rabies	177	15 (7, 37)	7.19 < 0.01	0 (0, 0)	N/Ac
Counties reporting raccoon rabies	536	34 (14, 88)		9.2 (5, 16)
Counties not reporting rabies	61	7 (5, 15)	5.17 < 0.01	0 (0, 0)	N/A
Counties reporting rabies but no raccoon rabies	116	22 (9, 54)		0 (0, 0)
Counties with state laboratories (laboratory county)	31	213 (88, 322)	7.42 < 0.01	6.5 (2, 9)	N/Sd
Counties without state laboratories (non-laboratory county)	682	25 (11, 63)		6.4 (0, 14)

^aWilcoxon two-sample z.

^b(Median number of rabid animals/median number of total rabies tests) × 100.

^cNot applicable.

^dNot significant.