Table 3.
Cattle characteristics and bovine TB status according to tuberculin testing at Kathmandu valley and Kavre district in Nepal.
| Determinants | Classification of TB status by tuberculin test |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive (n = 12), (≥ 4 mm) | Inconclusive (n = 11), (>2 mm and < 4 mm) | Negative (n = 100), (<2 mm) | Total no cattle tested (N = 123) | |
| Age category | ||||
| 1_3 | 3 | 3 | 29 | 35 |
| 4_6 | 5 | 6 | 42 | 53 |
| 7_9 | 4 | 2 | 29 | 35 |
| Herd_size | ||||
| <5 | 2 | 5 | 37 | 44 |
| 5_10 | 6 | 2 | 26 | 34 |
| 11_15 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 17 |
| >15 | 4 | 2 | 22 | 28 |
| Body condition | ||||
| Good | 2 | 1 | 10 | 13 |
| Medium | 6 | 6 | 69 | 81 |
| Poor | 4 | 4 | 21 | 29 |
| Husbandry practice | ||||
| Intensive or stall fed | 10 | 9 | 84 | 103 |
| Semi-intensive or mixed | 2 | 2 | 16 | 20 |
| 1Breed | ||||
| Holstein cross | 2 | 1 | 23 | 26 |
| Jersey cross | 8 | 6 | 62 | 76 |
| Local | 2 | 4 | 15 | 21 |
| Coughing history | ||||
| Yes | 7 | 5 | 31 | 43 |
| No | 5 | 6 | 69 | 80 |
| Animal Origin | ||||
| Home breed | 4 | 4 | 30 | 38 |
| Imported | 8 | 7 | 70 | 85 |
| Grand Total | 12 | 11 | 100 | 123 |