Table 2.
Positive test results by pathogen, county, and year of Ohio feral swine samples (2009 - 2015).
| Pathogen | Year |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 2010 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | |
| Toxoplasma gondii | Lucasa | Vintonb | ||||
| Trichinella spiralis | Lucasa | Vintonb | ||||
| Methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus | Jacksonb | Lorainc, Vintonb | Vintonb | Vintonb | ||
| Leptospira spp. | Galliab | Vintonb, Jacksonb | Loraind, Vintonb | Loraind, Vintonb | ||
| Brucella spp. | Lorainc | Lorainc | ||||
| Influenza-A virus | Vintonb, Lorainc |
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| Hepatitis E virus | Sciotod | |||||
a
Intentional release reported 2010, origin of feral swine unknown. Population eliminated.
b
Accidental escapees from hunting preserves first noted around 1980, Eurasian lineage and descendants. Established populations.
c
Intentional release reported 2012, feral swine from (reportedly) Georgia. All individuals removed.
d
Intentional release reported 2011, feral swine from (reportedly) Louisiana. Several individuals not captured.