Table 1 Prevalence of pathogenic trypanosomes in anaemic cattle at each crush pen
Crush pen | Sample size | No. of anaemic cattle (%; 95 % CI) | No. of PT positive anaemic cattle (%; 95 % CI) | No. (Trypanosome species prevalence; 95 % CI) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
T.c | T.v | T.c + T.v | ||||
Banachoongo | 115 | 14 (12.0; 6.1–18.2) | 3 (21.4; 0.0–46.0) | 1 (7.1 %; 0.0–22.6 %) | 1 (7.1 %; 0.0–22.6 %) | 1 (7.1 %; 0.0–22.6 %) |
Itumbi | 25 | 1 (4.0; 0.0–12.2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Iyanda | 66 | 1 (1.5; 0.0–4.5) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kapulwe | 89 | 8 (9.0; 2.9–15.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mutenda | 152 | 22 (14.5; 8.8–20.1) | 13 (59.1; 36.8–81.4) | 12 (54.5 %; 31.9–77.1 %) | 1 (4.5 %; 0.0–14.0 %) | 0 |
New Ngoma | 42 | 9 (21.4; 8.4–34.4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Shinampamba | 75 | 3 (4.0; 0.0–8.5) | 1 (33.3; 0.0–100) | 1 (33.3 %; 0.0–100 %) | 0 | 0 |
Total | 564 | 58 (10.3; 7.8–12.8) | 17 (29.3; 17.2–41.4) | 14 (24.1 %; 12.8–34.5 %) | 2 (3.4 %; 0.0–8.3 %) | 1 (1.7 %; 0.0–5.2 %) |