Table 1. Numbers and percentages of cows infected with hemoplasma and Theileria and grazing in each prefecture.
| Organisms/ living condition | No. of PCR-positive and grazing cows (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fukuoka | Saga | Nagasaki | Kumamoto | Oita | Miyazaki | Kagoshima | Okinawa | P-value* | ||
| Hemoplasma | ||||||||||
| Only Mw | 16 (32) | 18 (36) | 22 (44) | 29 (58) | 16 (32) | 15 (30) | 22 (44) | 23 (46) | 0.07 | |
| Only CMh | 8 (16) | 5 (10) | 4 (8) | 2 (4) | 6 (12) | 4 (8) | 5 (10) | 4 (8) | 0.66 | |
| Mw + CMh | 20 (40) | 19 (38) | 17 (34) | 17 (34) | 26 (52) | 28 (56) | 20 (40) | 20 (40) | 0.23 | |
| Total hemoplasma | 44 (88) | 42 (84) | 43 (86) | 48 (96) | 48 (96) | 47 (94) | 47 (94) | 47 (94) | 0.18 | |
| Theileria | 4 (8) | 11 (22) | 30 (60) | 37 (74) | 36 (72) | 1 (2) | 22 (44) | 3 (6) | <0.001 | |
| Grazing | 0 (0) | 5 (10) | 45 (90) | 20 (40) | 31 (62) | 20 (40) | 17 (34) | 0 (0) | <0.001 | |
Mw, M. wenyonii; CMh, “Candidatus Mycoplasma haemobos”. *P-value: comparison of each infection rate and the rate of cattle that experienced grazing among eight prefectures by the χ2 test.