Table 3.
Association of pathogens with severity of disease using weighed clinical score system.
| Pathogen | Clinical signs score categories |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cat 1: mild | Cat 2: moderate | Cat 3: severe | n | P-value | ||
| Campylobacter | 43.9% (18/41) | 40.0% (16/40) | 38.1% (8/21) | 102 | 0.900 | |
| C. perfringens | 26.8% (11/41) | 10.0% (4/40) | 19.0% (4/21) | 102 | 0.149 | |
| C. difficile | 15.8% (6/38) | 13.2% (5/38) | 26.3% (5/19) | 95 | 0.516 | |
| hEC | 2.5% (1/40)a | 2.6% (1/39)a | 20.0% (4/20)b | 99 | 0.021 | |
| Toxocara | 2.4% (1/41) | 2.6% (1/39) | 5.3% (1/19) | 99 | 0.796 | |
| Cystoisospora | 22.0% (9/41) | 10.3% (4/39) | 26.3% (5/19) | 99 | 0.225 | |
| Giardia | 17.1% (7/41) | 5.1% (2/39) | 0.0% (0/19) | 99 | 0.079 | |
| Cyniclomyces | 14.6% (6/41) | 10.3% (4/39) | 5.3% (1/19) | 99 | 0.708 | |
| CPV | 14.6% (6/41)a | 13.2% (5/38)a | 61.9%(13/21)b | 100 | 0.000 | |
| CCoV | 22.5% (9/40)a | 39.5% (15/38)ab | 57.1% (12/21)b | 99 | 0.025 | |
P-value = overall p-value for the differences among the groups (chi-square test).
a,bEach superscript letter denotes a subset of clinical score categories in whose column proportions do not differ significantly from each other at the 0.05 level.
The bold values denote statistically significant p values (P < 0.05).