Table 1.

Gender, age categories, breed, lifestyle, clinical form of babesiosis, tick infestation history, exposure of ticks during the routine visit and prevalence of Babesia spp. for 90 dogs included in the study.

Variable	Babesial Prevalence (95% CI)
Gender Males Females	52.2% (41.5–62.7) 47.8% (37.2–58.5)
Age categories (years) Puppies (>1) 1–3 4–6 7–10 >10	5.6% (2.1–13.1) 58.9% (48.0–69.0) 13.3% (7.4–22.5) 10% (4.9–18.6) 12.2% (6.6–21.2)
Dog breeds Cross-breed Peking German Sheperd Akita Beagle Caucasian Sheperd Bullmastiff Bull terrier Boxer	52.2% (41.5–62.8) 14.4% (8.2–23.8) 10% (4.9–18.6) 2.2% (0.4–8.6) 5.6% (2.1–13.1) 4.4% (1.4–11.6) 1.1% (0.1–6.9) 3.3% (0.9–10.1) 6.7% (2.7–14.5)
Lifestyle Outdoors Indoors	74.4% (63.9–82.8) 25.6% (17.2–36.0)
Tick infestation history	100% (94.9–99.9)
Dogs With ticks Without ticks	16.7% (9.9–26.3) 83.3% (73.7–90.0)
Babesiosis Acute Mild	61.1% (50.2–71.0) 38.9% (28.9–49.8)
Total dogs analysed (90)	100% (94.9–99.9)