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. 2020 Dec 4;11:6231. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20097-0

Table 2.

Seropositivity among dogs and cats, split into risk factor groupings where data were availablea.

Dogs Cats
Risk factor No. + (total) % p No. + (total) % p
Household 0.004 1.000
 Covid+ 6 (47) 12.8% 1 (22) 4.5%
 Covid− 2 (133) 1.5% 1 (38) 2.6%
 Suspected Covid+ 1 (7) 14.3% 0 (3) 0.0%
Sex 0.045 0.492
 Male 7 (83) 8.4% 2 (31) 6.5%
 Female 2 (105) 1.9% 0 (30) 0.0%
Age (years) na na
 <1 0 (20) 0.0% 0 (9) 0.0%
 1–3 5 (70) 7.1% 1 (22) 4.5%
 4–7 2 (83) 2.4% 1 (19) 5.3%
 8+ 4 (137) 2.9% 2 (62) 3.2%
 Unknown 4 (141) 2.8% 7 (78) 9.0%

aFor household and sex, p-value determined by two-sided Fisher’s exact test. Household COVID+ defined as one or more members of a household with a confirmed positive COVID-19 test. All the information was not available for all the animals. Both household (p = 0.004) and sex (p = 0.045) were associated with COVID seropositivity among dogs, whereas neither household (p = 1.000) nor sex (p = 0.492) were associated with COVID seropositivity among cats.