Table 4.
Prevalence of P. mirabilis in different examined samples of apparently healthy and diseased ducks.
| Type of sample n = 40 (for each type of samples) |
Proteus mirabilis | Total (total number of samples = 240) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apparently healthy ducks (No. of samples = 120) | Diseased ducks (No. of samples = 120) | |||||
| N | % | N | % | N | % | |
| Tracheal swabs | 2 | 1.6 | 3 | 2.5 | 5 | 2.08 |
| Cloacal swabs | 2 | 1.6 | 2 | 1.6 | 4 | 1.66 |
| Heart | 2 | 1.6 | 5 | 4.16 | 7 | 2.9 |
| Liver | 4 | 3.3 | 5 | 4.16 | 9 | 3.75 |
| Lung | 2 | 1.6 | 4 | 3.3 | 6 | 2.5 |
| Gizzard | 1 | 0.8 | 3 | 2.5 | 4 | 1.66 |
| Total | 13 | 10.8 | 22 | 18.3 | 35 | 14.6 |
|
Chi square P-value |
2.2308 0.8164 |
2 0.8491 |
3.2286 0.6648 |
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| Wilcoxon test p-value | 0.04123 | |||||