Table 1.
Prevalence of bacterial infections in A, dogs with atopic dermatitis (AD) (8 articles, 828 dogs) and B, dogs with other conditions (6 articles, 95 dogs).
| Reference number | Primary author | Year | Disease treated | Total number of dogs (T) | Number of dogs with a bacterial infection (N) | Prevalence (N/T, %) |
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| A: Dogs with atopic dermatitis | ||||||
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| 21 | Olivry | 2002 | AD | 61 | 3 5% | |
| 22 | Steffan | 2003 | AD | 117 | 29 | 25% |
| 4 | Burton | 2004 | AD | 41 | 4 | 10% |
| 23 | Steffan | 2005 | AD | 266 | 25 | 9% |
| 24 | Radowicz | 2005 | AD | 51 | 7 | 14% |
| 14 | Dip | 2013 | AD | 48 | 8 | 17% |
| 29 | Little | 2015 | AD | 112 | 13 | 12% |
| 30 | Moyaert | 2017 | AD | 132 | 1 | 1% |
| Total | 828 | 90 | 11% | |||
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| B: Dogs with other conditions | ||||||
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| 20 | Mouatt | 2002 | AF | 16 | 1 | 6% |
| 5 | Gregory | 2006 | RT | 15 | 4 | 27% |
| 25 | Schmiedt | 2006 | RT | 8 | 5 | 63% |
| 13 | Adamo | 2007 | MUE | 10 | 3 | 30% |
| 27 | Hopper | 2012 | RT | 26 | 2 | 8% |
| 16 | Rhoades | 2016 | IMPA | 20 | 1 | 5% |
| Total | 95 | 16 | 17% | |||
AF — Anal furunculosis/perianal fistulae; IMPA — Immune-mediated polyarthritis; MUE — Meningoencephalomyelitis of unknown etiology; RT — Renal transplantation.