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Table 3 Observed prevalence of FMDV NSP antibodies reported for all the buffalo subspecies tested and filtered by age, year, country and park of collection.

From: Serological profile of foot-and-mouth disease in wildlife populations of West and Central Africa with special reference to Syncerus caffer subspecies

  

No Positive/TOT

Observed seroprevalence

95% CI

Age Group

Calf (≤6 m)

1/1

100%

-

Juvenile (>6 m ≤2ys)

3/5

60.0%

22.9% - 88.4%

Sub-adult (>2ys ≤5ys)

36/51

70.6%

56.9% - 81.4%

 

Adult (>5ys)

78/125

62.4%

53.6% - 70.4%

Year

1999

30/44

68.2%

53.4% - 80.1%

2000

29/55

52.7%

39.8% - 65.3%

2001

13/22

59.1%

38.7% - 76.8%

2002

49/62

79.0%

67.2% - 87.4%

 

2003

6/13

46.1%

23.2% - 70.9%

Subspecie

Nile Buffalo

115/168

68.4%

61.1% - 75.0%

 

West African Buffalo

12/24

50.0%

31.4% - 68.6%

 

African Forest Buffalo

0/4

0%

-

Country

Benin

8/18

44.4%

24.5% - 66.3%

 

Burkina Faso

4/5

80.0%

36.0% - 98.0%

 

Nigeria

0/1

0%

-

 

West Africa

12/24

50.0%

31.4% - 68.6%

 

Central African Republic

52/81

64.2%

53.3% - 73.8%

 

Chad

30/53

56.6%

43.3% - 69.1%

 

Democratic Republic of Congo

33/34

97.1%

83.8% - 100%

 

Gabon

0/4

0%

-

 

Central Africa

115/172

66.9%

59.5% - 73.5%

Park

Pendjari National Park

8/18

44.4%

24.5% - 66.3%

 

Pama Reserve

3/3

100%

-

 

Arly National Park

1/2

50.0%

9.4% - 90.5%

 

Borgu Game Park

0/1

0%

-

 

Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park

15/19

78.9%

56.1% - 92.0%

 

Zemongo Faunal Reserve

6/7

85.7%

46.6% - 99.5%

 

Bamingui-Bagoran National Park

3/6

50.0%

18.8% - 81.2%

 

Zakouma National Park

22/41

53.7%

38.7% - 67.9%

 

Garamba National Park

33/34

97.1%

83.8% - 100%

 

Loango National Park

0/4

0%

-

  1. Adjusted-Wald test for age group F(3, 178) = 0.72 (p = 0.542).
  2. Adjusted-Wald test for year F(4, 192) = 3.03 (p = 0.019).
  3. Adjusted-Wald test for subspecie F(2, 194) = 3.52 (p = 0.031).
  4. Adjusted-Wald test for country F(6, 190) = 6.62 (p = 0.000).
  5. Adjusted-Wald test for region F(1, 195) = 2.51 (p = 0.115).
  6. Adjusted-Wald test for park F(9, 126) = 5.27 (p = 0.000).