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. 2022 Mar 4;15:72. doi: 10.1186/s13071-021-05131-4

Table 1.

Prevalence of AAT (Trypanosoma sp.) in different host species and by different diagnostic techniques in Burkina Faso (period: 1990 and 2019)

Diagnostic method Animal species Animals tested
[n]
Number of infections [n] Mean prevalence [%] Standard deviation [%]
Tc Tv Tb T Tc Tv Tb T Tc Tv Tb T
BCT Donkey 673 5 7 0 12 0.74 1.84 0.00 2.58 4.82 10.70 0.00 11.79
Cattle 31,048 712 642 7 1881 7.86 6.43 0.00 13.69 24.26 21.15 0.11 30.54
Camels 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Goats 801 2 6 0 8 0.10 0.40 0.00 0.50 0.78 2.82 0.00 3.28
Horses 17 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Sheep 1850 2 18 0 20 0.05 0.97 0.00 1.03 0.84 4.92 0.00 5.05
Subtotal 34,390 721 673 7 1921 6.11 5.19 0.00 10.94 21.56 18.97 0.10 27.64
PCR Cattle 2806 512 508 8 965 9.49 14.78 0.11 22.84 19.20 23.11 0.84 28.81
Elisa Donkey 481 7 26 6 29 1.28 5.51 1.46 5.99 5.16 15.20 6.75 15.29
Cattle 13,781 2444 4258 1069 6316 24.39 40.00 11.85 47.21 32.93 35.20 24.68 35.70
Camels 1 1 1 1 1 100 100 100 100
Goats 457 5 25 16 43 0.82 4.84 2.13 7.48 3.51 13.95 6.09 15.76
Horses 4 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Sheep 1009 98 162 48 203 6.01 9.48 2.27 12.40 15.22 23.68 7.56 25.81
Subtotal 15,733 2555 4472 1140 6592 18.78 31.17 9.26 37.03 30.28 34.94 21.97 36.55
Total Donkey 1154 12 33 6 41 0.96 3.32 0.59 3.95 4.96 12.80 4.33 13.39
Cattle 49,654 3747 5505 1105 9686 13.04 17.44 3.64 24.51 27.80 30.37 14.67 35.31
Camels 2 1 1 1 1 50.00 50.00 50.00 50.00 70.71 70.71 70.71 70.71
Goats 1258 7 31 16 51 0.39 2.18 0.85 3.29 2.32 9.33 3.98 10.82
Horses 21 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Sheep 2859 100 180 48 223 2.32 4.21 0.86 5.36 9.83 15.65 4.79 17.29
General total 54,948 3867 5750 1176 10,002 10.47 14.32 3.02 20.12 25.24 28.14 13.23 33.05

Tc T. congolense, Tv T. vivax; Tb: T. brucei, T number of animals infected, [n] number, [%] prevalence