Table 1.
Details of the samples and results of biological samples (nasal swab, blood and lung tissue) collected from sheep for this study
| Provinces in the Marmara region | Nasal swab and blood samples | Lung tissues | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of blood and nasal swabs tested | No. of positive sera | No. of positive, only blood sample | No. of positive, only nasal swab | No. of positive in both blood and nasal swab | No. of blood samples sequenced | No. of nasal swabs sequenced | No. of lung samples tested | No. of positive | No. of samples sequenced | |
| Edirnea | 10 (10) | − | − | − | − | NT | NT | 7 (1) | − | NT |
| Kirklarelia | 3 (3) | − | − | − | − | NT | NT | 5 (4) | 2 | − |
| Tekirdağa | 25 (8) | − | − | − | − | NT | NT | 17 (10) | 3 | − |
| Istanbula | 35 (28) | 4 | − | 2 | 1 | − | 2 | 23 (16) | 4 | 4 |
| Çanakkale | 21 (15) | 7 | 1 | − | 2 | 1 | − | 11 (6) | − | NT |
| Bursa | − | − | − | − | − | NT | NT | 2 (2) | − | NT |
| Balıkesir | − | − | − | − | − | NT | NT | 7 (7) | 1 | − |
| Yalova | − | − | − | − | − | NT | NT | 4 | − | NT |
| Kocaeli | 10 (2) | 2 | 1 | 2 | − | 1 | − | 16 (9) | − | NT |
| Sakarya | 7 | − | − | − | − | NT | NT | 8 (3) | 3 | 1 |
| Total | 111 (66) | 13 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 100 (58) | 13 | 5 |
−: negative; NT: not tested.
a
Indicates provinces in the Thrace region of Turkey. The numbers in parenthesis indicates the samples collected from sheep showing PPR like clinical symptoms (fever, respiratory distress, purulent occular and nasal discharges, weakness, diarrhoea)/pathological lesions (pneumonia, haemorrhage in lung) wherever applicable.