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Table 2 Sample size by host species and Bio-region studied, apparent prevalence obtained, and Brucella culture results in Iberian wild ungulate species.

From: Spatial distribution and risk factors of Brucellosis in Iberian wild ungulates

Common name

Latin name

Serum samples by region

Mean prevalence (95% CI)

Samples submitted for culture

Nr. of isolates (species and biovar)

  

1

2

3

4

5

Total

   

Barbary sheep

Ammotragus lervia

0

0

8

0

0

8

0 (0-36)

0

 

Mouflon

Ovis aries

0

0

75

0

0

75

0 (0-5)

0

 

Iberian wild goat 1

Capra pyrenaica

0

41

2

1042

1

1086

0.1 (0-0.6)

12

1 (B. melitensis biovar 1)

Chamois 3

Rupicapra pyrenaica

57

1353

0

0

0

1410

0.8 (0.4-1.4)

11

 

Roe deer

Capreolus capreolus

77

152

5

9

42

285

0 (0-1)

0

 

Fallow deer

Dama dama

92

107

47

32

64

342

0 (0-1)

0

 

Red deer

Cervus elaphus

452

1591

2378

932

468

5821

0.4 (0.3-0.6)

814

1 (B. abortus biovar 1)

Wild boar

Sus scrofa

658

1920

1499

132

245

4454

33 (31.6-34.4)

5895

104 (B. suis biovar 2)

TOTAL

 

1336

5164

4014

2147

820

13481

 

682

106

  1. 1 Includes mainly the Mediterranean subspecies Capra pyrenaica hispanica. 2 All animals were sampled randomly during hunting or at game farms but for the ibex tissues submitted for culture, which came from a clinical case with suspected brucellosis. 3 Cantabrian chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica parva) in Bio-region 1 and Pyrenean chamois (R. p. pyrenaica) in Bio-region 2. 4 Thirty-one out of these 81 samples came from iELISA-positive animals and 50 from iELISA-negative ones. 5 A total of 539 out of these 589 samples were from iELISA-positive animals and 50 from iELISA-negative ones.