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Table 2 Animal-level seroprevalence of bovine brucellosis in three states of northern Nigeria based on RBPT and c-ELISA tests

From: A large seroprevalence survey of brucellosis in cattle herds under diverse production systems in northern Nigeria

State

n

RBPT pos. (%)

c-ELISA pos. (%)

FP (%)

Adamawa

1827

892 (48.8)

510 (27.9)

382 (42.8)

Kaduna

1870

511 (27.3)

385 (20.6)

126 (24.7)

Kano

1048

332 (31.7)

242 (23.1)

90 (27.1)

Overall

4745

1735 (36.6)

1137 (24.0)

598 (34.5)

  1. Key:
  2. n: Sample size.
  3. RBPT: Rose-Bengal plate-agglutination test.
  4. c-ELISA: Competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
  5. FP (%): False positives (proportion of animals that were RBPT positive but c-ELISA negative).