Table 8 Relationship between bacteriology and clinical or seminal score
Clinical score (n = 218) | Seminal score (n = 218) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Poor | Fair | Good | Poor | Fair | Good | |||||
B. ovis culture results (n = 198) | Negative | No. | 22 | 54 | 33 | p < 0.05** | 17 | 33 | 59 | p < 0.01** |
(%) | (10.1) | (24.8) | (15.1) | (7.8) | (15.1) | (27.1) | ||||
Positive | No. | 29 | 42 | 18 | 43 | 34 | 12 | |||
(%) | (13.3) | (19.3) | (8.3) | (19.7) | (15.6) | (5.5) | ||||
Contaminated or not tested* | No. | 5 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 10 | |||
(n = 20) | (%) | (2.3) | (4.1) | (2.8) | (2.8) | (1.8) | (4.6) | |||