Table 1.
Proportional incidence of diseases in dogs according to age.
| Type of diseases | Diseases | Number of cases (Proportional incidence, %) |
Chi-square value | P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puppy | Adolescent | Adult | Total | ||||
| Viral | Parvovirosis | 51 (3.3) | 23 (1.5) | 62 (4.0) | 136 (8.7) | 7.54 | 0.02 |
| Distemper | 20 (1.3) | 14 (0.9) | 11 (0.7) | 45 (2.9) | 12.19 | 0.00 | |
| Bacterial | Salmonellosis | 21 (1.3) | 16 (1.1) | 25 (1.6) | 62 (4) | 2.37 | 0.31 |
| Colibacillosis | 35 (2.2) | 13 (0.8) | 20 (1.3) | 68 (4.4) | 20.6 | 0.00 | |
| Pneumonia | 28 (1.8) | 17 (1.1) | 41 (2.6) | 86 (5.5) | 1.09 | 0.58 | |
| Parasitic | Helminthiasis | 73 (4.7) | 22 (1.4) | 27 (1.7) | 122 (7.8) | 70.31 | 0.00 |
| Mange | 23 (1.5) | 31 (2.0) | 94 (6.0) | 148 (9.5) | 14.98 | 0.00 | |
| Myiasis | 26 (1.7) | 8 (0.5) | 7 (0.4) | 41 (2.6) | 28.42 | 0.00 | |
| Ectoparasitism | 19 (1.2) | 40 (2.6) | 71 (4.6) | 130 (8.3) | 14.03 | 0.00 | |
| Sub-total | 296 (19.0) | 184 (11.81) | 358 (23.0) | 838 (53.8) | |||
| Non-infectious | Lacerated wound | 22 (1.4) | 32 (2.1) | 78 (5.0) | 132 (8.5) | 9.15 | 0.01 |
| Fracture | 18 (1.1) | 27 (1.7) | 44 (2.9) | 89 (5.7) | 4.65 | 0.09 | |
| Dystocia | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 22 (1.4) | 22 (1.4) | 22.46 | 0.00 | |
| Abortion | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 16 (1.0) | 16 (1.0) | 16.47 | 0.00 | |
| Partial paralysis | 2 (0.1) | 6 (0.4) | 20 (1.3) | 28 (1.8) | 7.06 | 0.03 | |
| Vit. deficiency | 27 (1.7) | 16 (1.1) | 35 (2.4) | 78 (5.0) | 1.89 | 0.39 | |
| Sub-total | 69 (4.4) | 81 (5.2) | 215 (13.8) | 365 (23.4) | |||
| Non-specific | Gastroenteritis | 42 (2.7) | 18 (1.2) | 26 (1.7) | 86 (5.5) | 21.58 | 0.00 |
| Dermatitis | 7 (0.4) | 19 (1.2) | 43 (2.8) | 69 (4.4) | 11.23 | 0.00 | |
| Arthritis | 3 (0.2) | 6 (0.4) | 28 (1.8) | 37 (2.4) | 11.01 | 0.00 | |
| Orchitis | 5 (0.3) | 12 (0.8) | 38 (2.4) | 55 (3.5) | 11.43 | 0.03 | |
| Otorrhoea | 2 (0.1) | 5 (0.4) | 11 (0.7) | 18 (1.2) | 1.29 | 0.53 | |
| Alopecia | 3 (0.2) | 16 (1.0) | 45 (2.9) | 64 (4.1) | 18.65 | 0.00 | |
| Poisoning | 7 (0.4) | 6 (0.4) | 12 (0.8) | 25 (1.6) | 0.05 | 0.98 | |
| Sub-total | 69 (4.4) | 82 (5.2) | 203 (13.0) | 354 (22.7) | |||
| Grand total | 434 (27.8) | 347 (22.3) | 776 (49.8) | 1557 (100) | |||