Molecular identification and prevalence of tick-borne pathogens in zebu and taurine cattle in North Cameroon

Abanda, Babette; Paguem, Archile; Abdoulmoumini, Mamoudou; Kingsley, Manchang Tanyi; Renz, Alfons; Eisenbarth, Albert

doi:10.1186/s13071-019-3699-x

Parasites & Vectors

Table 3 Logistic regression model with all independent variables as exposure and their interaction with odds of being infected by the corresponding TBP species. P-values below 0.05 and level of significance are shown in bold

From: Molecular identification and prevalence of tick-borne pathogens in zebu and taurine cattle in North Cameroon

TBP	Region	Age	Sex	PCV	BCS	A.cn	A.H	A.mg	A.pl	B.th	R.af	T.mt	T.vl
A.cn OR	1	0.9	8.9	7.4	3.5		2.7	2.4	6.5	3.0	4.7	2.2	1.2
95% CI	− 4.7–0.2	0.6–1.1	0.2–3.9	0.1–3.1	1.7–2.3		na	na	0.02–4.7	0.7–11	na	1.1–5.0	0.9–4.4
P	0.07	0.5	0.8	0.6	0.3		0.9	0.9	0.7	0.09	0.2	0.002 **	0.002 **
A.H OR	1.0	0.9	0.2	< 0.0001	4.3	2.7		2.3	1	1.3	6.7	8.5	5.6
95% CI	0.007–0.7	0.6–1.4	0.03–0.9	na	0.3–43.0	na		na	0.1–6.1	na	Na	1.8–3.7	6.7–5.5
P	0.04 *	0.8	0.05	0.99	0.2	0.9		0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.003 **	0.0001 *******
A.mg OR	3.4	0.9	0.3	1.4	0.4	< 0.0001	< 0.001		0.3	2	0.8	14.8	4.2
95% CI	1.3–9.3	0.7–1.0	0.1–0.9	0.3–4.7	0.05–1.8	na	na		0.02–1.2	0.5–6.7	0.1–4.4	6.4–35.3	0.5–24.1
P	0.009 *	0.3	0.03 *	0.5	0.3	0.9	0.99		0.15	0.2	0.9	< 0.0001 *******	0.1
A.pl OR	1.9	0.8	2	0.9	0.3	1.1	1.2	0.2		1.2	0.7	22.4	2.6
95% CI	0.9–3.9	0.7–0.9	0.8–5.2	0.3–2.4	0.08–1.1	0.1–6.1	0.2–6.7	0.05–0.9		0.4–3.3	0.1–3.0	11.6–4.6	0.5–1.1
P	0.06	0.02 *	0.1	0.9	0.1	0.9	0.8	0.05		0.6	0.6	< 0.0001 *******	0.2
B.th OR	3.5	0.8	1.2	2.9	0.6	2.3	< 0.0001	1.8	1.35		2.1	0.5	1.1
95% CI	2.0–6.2	0.7–0.9	0.8–2.0	1.8–4.6	0.3–1.1	0.5–8.1	na	0.4–5.5	0.4–3.3		0.4–7.6	0.2–1.3	0.2–3.8
P	< 0.0001 *******	0.003 **	0.3	< 0.0001 *******	0.1	0.2	0.9	0.3	0.5		0.2	0.2	0.8
R.af OR	1.7	1	0.4	1	1	3.6	< 0.0001	1	1.1	1.9		8.4	2.06
95% CI	0.5–6.0	0.7–1.2	0.1–1.7	0.2–4.3	0.1–4.9	0.1–34.1	na	0.1–5.1	0.2-–.6	0.3–7.1		2.6–27.9	0.08–1.7
P	0.3	0.8	0.2	0.9	0.9	0.3	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.3		0.0002 *******	0.5
T.mt OR	0.8	1	1	0.4	1.5	12.8	9.3	16.4	21.2	0.6	7.9		6.4
95% CI	0.5–1.4	0.9–1.7	0.5–1.9	0.1–1.0	0.7–3.0	2.0–72.9	2.3–37.0	6.9–39.7	11.1–41.6	0.2–1.5	2.3–2.5		1.6–26.8
P	0.5	0.2	0.9	0.08	0.2	0.004 **	0.001 **	< 0.0001 *******	< 0.0001 *******	0.3	0.0006 **		0.007 **
T.vl OR	0.5	0.8	0.9	2.6	3.2	12.4	23.9	4	3.1	0.9	2	5.3
95% CI	0.08–3.1	0.6–1.1	0.2–3.6	0.7–9.9	0.6–1.3	2.1–62.9	2.6–223	0.4–2.5	0.6–1.3	0.1–3.5	0.07–17.9	1.0–26.9
P	0.4	0.3	0.8	0.1	0.1	0.002 **	0.004 **	0.1	0.1	0.9	0.5	0.04 *

Abbreviations: A.cn, Anaplasma centrale; A.H, Anaplasma sp. ‘Hadesa’; A.mg, Anaplasma marginale; A.pl, Anaplasma platys; B.th, Borrelia theileri; R.af, Rickettsia africae; T.mt, Theileria mutans; T.vl, Theileria velifera; na, not available; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval

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