Table 3.
Distribution of Q fever seropositivity according to species, sex, breed, and age.
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| Species | Sex | Breed | Age | Seropositive animals | |||||||||
| Bovine | Female | Male | N/S | Ayrshire | Friesian | Guernsey | Jersey | Zebu | Adults | Heifers | Yearlings | N/S | |
| 57/672 (8.48%) | 2/52 (3.85%) | 1 | 37/243 (15.23%) | 20/448 (4.46%) | 0/4 (0%) | 2/23 (8.7%) | 0/6 (0%) | 49/588 (8.33%) | 9/135 (6.67%) | 2 | 59/725 (8.14%) | ||
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| Caprine | Galla | Saanen | Toggenburg | ||||||||||
| 0/119 (0%) | 1/11 (9.09%) | 2 | 0/94 (0%) | 0/3 (0%) | 1/26 (3.85%) | 1/123 (0.81%) | 0/9 (0%) | 1/132 (0.76%) | |||||
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| Ovine | Doper | Merino | |||||||||||
| 4/236 (1.7%) | 0/47 (0%) | 0 | 4/290 (1.38%) | 0/2 (0%) | 4/246 (1.63%) | 0/37 (0%) | 4/283 (1.41%) | ||||||
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| Total samples | 1140 | 1140 | 1140 | 64/1140 (5.61%) | |||||||||