Table 5.
Proportional incidence of diseases in dog according to season.
| Type of diseases | Diseases | Number of cases (Proportional incidence, %) |
Chi-square value | P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter | Summer | Rainy | Total | ||||
| Viral | Parvovirosis | 73 (4.7) | 26 (1.7) | 37 (2.4) | 136 (8.7) | 32.4 | 0.00 |
| Distemper | 22 (1.4) | 11 (0.7) | 12 (0.8) | 45 (2.9) | 5.74 | 0.06 | |
| Bacterial | Salmonellosis | 11 (0.7) | 37 (2.4) | 14 (0.9) | 62 (4.0) | 17.52 | 0.00 |
| Colibacillosis | 10 (0.6) | 42 (2.7) | 16 (1.0) | 68 (4.4) | 22.25 | 0.00 | |
| Pneumonia | 41 (2.6) | 17 (1.1) | 28 (1.8) | 86 (5.5) | 12.42 | 0.00 | |
| Parasitic | Helminthiasis | 27 (1.7) | 39 (2.5) | 56 (3.6) | 122 (7.8) | 12.17 | 0.00 |
| Mange | 47 (3.0) | 69 (4.4) | 32 (2.1) | 148 (9.5) | 12.24 | 0.00 | |
| Myiasis | 7 (0.4) | 22 (1.4) | 12 (0.8) | 41 (2.6) | 7.42 | 0.02 | |
| Ectoparasitism | 18 (1.2) | 34 (2.2) | 78 (5.0) | 130 (8.3) | 51.66 | 0.00 | |
| Sub-total | 256 (16.4) | 297 (19) | 285 (18.3) | 838 (53.8) | |||
| Non-infectious | Lacerated wound | 45 (2.9) | 54 (3.5) | 33 (3.1) | 132 (8.5) | 3.99 | 0.14 |
| Fracture | 25 (1.6) | 37 (2.4) | 27 (1.7) | 89 (5.7) | 1.87 | 0.39 | |
| Dystocia | 8 (0.6) | 6 (0.2) | 8 (0.6) | 22 (1.4) | 0.5 | 0.75 | |
| Abortion | 7 (0.5) | 3 (0.2) | 6 (0.3) | 16 (1.0) | 1.97 | 0.37 | |
| Partial paralysis | 10 (0.6) | 11 (0.7) | 7 (0.5) | 28 (1.8) | 0.72 | 0.69 | |
| Vit. deficiency | 21 (1.3) | 26 (1.6) | 31 (2.1) | 78 (5.0) | 2.22 | 0.33 | |
| Sub-total | 116 (7.4) | 137 (8.7) | 112 (7.1) | 365 (23.4) | |||
| Non-specific | Gastroenteritis | 28 (1.8) | 33 (2.1) | 25 (1.6) | 86 (5.5) | 0.61 | 0.74 |
| Dermatitis | 37 (2.4) | 18 (1.2) | 14 (0.9) | 69 (4.4) | 14.76 | 0.00 | |
| Arthritis | 12 (0.7) | 18 (1.2) | 7 (0.5) | 37 (2.4) | 4.15 | 0.13 | |
| Orchitis | 11 (0.7) | 13 (0.8) | 31 (2.0) | 55 (3.5) | 14.93 | 0.00 | |
| Otorrhoea | 2 (0.1) | 6 (0.5) | 10 (0.6) | 18 (1.2) | 4.69 | 0.09 | |
| Alopecia | 35 (2.2) | 17 (1.1) | 12 (0.8) | 64 (4.1) | 12.24 | 0.00 | |
| Poisoning | 10 (0.6) | 6 (0.5) | 9 (0.5) | 25 (1.6) | 1.41 | 0.49 | |
| Sub-total | 135 (8.6) | 111 (7.1) | 108 (6.9) | 354 (22.7) | |||
| Grand total | 507 (32.5) | 545 (35.0) | 505 (32.5) | 1557 (100) | |||