Lawsonia intracellularis in the feces of wild rodents and stray cats captured around equine farms

BMC Veterinary Research

Table 3 Total numbers of wild rodents and feral cats caught at eight horse farms and the positive rates of Lawsonia intracellularis assessed using real-time PCR

				Correlation (p value)
Family	Species	Common name	No. of samples (positive/total)	Positive percentage in captured animals vs. serology of resident foals	Positive percentage in captured animals vs. fecal shedding rate of resident foals	Positive percentage in captured animals vs. mean number of LI shed per gram of fecal samples
Muridae	Rattus norvegicus caraco Pallas	Brown Rat	3/21 (14%)	0.0052	0.0364	ns ^a
	Mus musculus	House Mouse	7/39 (18%)	0.0134	0.0423	ns
	Apodemus agrarius	Striped Field Mouse	1/31 (3%)	0.0009	0.0034	ns
Cricetidae	Myodes rufocanus	Grey Red-backed Vole	2/22 (9%)	0.0008	0.0009	ns
Sciuridae	Pteromys volans	Eurasian Flying Squirrel	0/2 (0%)	-	-	-
	Sciurus vulgaris coreae	Eurasian Red Squirrel	0/3 (0%)	-	-	-
Felidae	Felis catus	Feral Cat	3/13 (23%)	ns	ns	ns
Total			16/131 (12%)

^a ns, no statistically significant association between two evidences
Statistical significance was set at the 5% level, and two-sided p-values were calculated for the analysis of the correlation between data from the farms and the detection rates of L. intracellularis DNA in fecal samples from captured wild rodents and feral cats

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