Table 2.
Distribution of samples and analysis of risk factors: sex and age groups for bovine Babesia spp. in Ecuador.
| Variables | Sample | Positive | Fisher’s Exact Test (p-Value) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | ||
| El Carmen-Manabí Zone (n = 264) | |||||
| Sex | 0.38 | ||||
| Male | 38 | 14.39 | 5 | 13.16 | |
| Female | 226 | 85.61 | 45 | 19.91 | |
| Age group | 0.48 | ||||
| 0 to 9 | 21 | 7.95 | 6 | 28.57 | |
| 10 to 18 | 7 | 2.65 | 3 | 42.86 | |
| 19 to 36 | 18 | 6.82 | 4 | 22.22 | |
| >36 months | 137 | 5189 | 29 | 21.17 | |
| ND | 81 | 30.68 | 8 | 9.88 | |
| Quito-Pichincha Zone (n = 143) | |||||
| Sex | 0.35 | ||||
| Male | 7 | 4.9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Female | 136 | 95.1 | 29 | 21.32 | |
| Age group | 0.004 | ||||
| 0 to 9 | 26 | 18.18 | 0 | 0 | |
| 10 to 18 | 27 | 18.88 | 4 | 13.79 | |
| 19 to 36 | 70 | 48.95 | 21 | 72.41 | |
| >36 months | 20 | 13.99 | 4 | 13.79 | |
Legend: The % value corresponds to the total number of animals sampled in the area or in each farm; ND, not dertermined.