Table 3 Relationship between tick burden and presence of pathogens
Tick burden | Pearson’s Chi-square | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
None | Low | Medium | High | Asymp. Sig (2-sided) | ||
E. canis | Negative | 22 | 18 | 10 | 2 | 0.00* |
Positive | 4 | 5 | 7 | 10 | ||
A. platys | Negative | 22 | 18 | 16 | 10 | 0.59 |
Positive | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | ||
H. canis | Negative | 24 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 0.02* |
Positive | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | ||
D. immitis | Negative | 17 | 20 | 15 | 12 | 0.04* |
Positive | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | ||
No of pathogens | 0 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 0.02* |
1 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 6 | ||
2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||