Table 2.
Prevalence of infections, ectoparasite infestations, and anemia in a colony of free-roaming domestic cats living in the RIOZOO in Brazil
| Percentage of animals positive (number positive/number sampled) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Anemiaa | FIV | FeLV | Cytauxzoon spp. | Mycoplasma spp. | Toxoplasma gondii | Felicola subrostratus | Ctenocephalides felis |
| 2002 | 16.2 (6/37) | 55.3 (21/38) | 2.6b (1/38) | 15.8b (6/38) | 15.8d (6/38) | 92.1b (35/38) | 11.4b (5/44) | 38.6b (17/44) |
| 2003 | 40.4 (19/47) | 57.4 (27/47) | 6.4b (3/47) | 34b,c (16/47) | 36.2b,e (17/47) | 63.8c (30/47) | 4.3b (2/47) | 72.3c (34/47) |
| 2004 | 27.3 (9/33) | 75.8 (25/33) | 39.4c (13/33) | 48.5c (16/33) | 75.8c (24/33) | 60.6c (20/33) | 39.4c (13/33) | 42.4b (14/33) |
FIV: feline immunodeficiency virus; FeLV: feline leukemia virus; values within columns having different superscript numbers are significantly different (b, c: p < 0.01; d, e: p < 0.05).
a
Anemia = hematocrit value ≤24%.