Table 2.
Association of A. marginale prevalence and epidemiological parameters from Lodhran and Dera Gahzi Khan districts. Based on age, 5 years old animals were considered young while older than 5 years were mature.
| Parameters | Districts |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lohdran |
Dera Ghazi Khan |
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| A. marginale positive samples | A. marginale negative samples | p-value | A. marginale positive samples | A. marginale negative samples | p-value | ||
| Gender | Male | 2 (8%) | 23 (92%) | 1.00 | 18 (24%) | 58 (76%) | 0.08 |
| Female | 18 (9%) | 175 (91%) | 18 (13%) | 116 (87%) | |||
| Age | >5 year | 12 (10%) | 106 (90%) | 0.6 | 25 (18%) | 112 (82%) | 0.7 |
| <5 year | 08 (9%) | 92 (92%) | 11 (15%) | 62 (85%) | |||
| Health status | Healthy | 20 (10%) | 189 (91%) | 1.00 | – | – | – |
| Fever | 0 (0%) | 09 (100 %) | – | – | – | ||
| Dogs presence | Present | 11 (9%) | 118 (90%) | 0.8 | 21 (14%) | 131 (86%) | 0.04 |
| Absent | 9 (10%) | 80 (90%) | 15 (26%) | 43 (74%) | |||
| Presence of feeding ticks | Present | 5 (10%) | 46 (90%) | 0.8 | 36 (18%) | 161(82%) | 0.1 |
| Absent | 15 (9%) | 152 (91%) | 0 (0%) | 13 (100%) | |||
| Living environment | Outdoor | – | – | – | 22 (14%) | 134 (86%) | 0.05 |
| Indoor | – | – | – | 14 (26%) | 40 (74%) | ||
| Presence of other dairy animals | Present | – | – | – | 28 (15%) | 158 (85%) | 0.03 |
| Absent | – | – | – | 8 (33%) | 16 (67%) | ||
| Water supply | Pump | – | – | – | 16 (19%) | 69 (81%) | 0.7 |
| Pool | – | – | – | 20(16%) | 105(84%) | ||