Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Table 4 A comparison of official data on seroprevalence of brucellosis and the results of this study for 7 raions.

From: A Serological Survey of Ruminant Livestock in Kazakhstan During Post-Soviet Transitions in Farming and Disease Control

		% seropositive						Sample sizes
		Cattle			Small stock			Cattle		Small stock
Year	Raion	Official	This study	P¹	Official	This study	P	Official	This study	Official	This study
1997	Suzak	0	0	-	0	1.4	NS	327	17	94	70
1998	Moinkum	0	-	-	0.7	0	NS	160	0	1203	10
1997	Sarysu	0.6	0	NS	1.1²	1.3	NS	2153	36	2328	79
1997	Dzhezdin	1.1	0	NS	-	0	-	5700	59	0	203
1997	Zhana-arkin	0.5	8.7	***	0	1.8	**	5400	92	1000	171
1997	Nurin	3.8	20	**	1.5	1.6	NS	21700	25	3500	63
1998	Chalkar	4.1	0	NS	0	0	-	556	9	100	50

¹P = significance of the Fisher exact test. *** p < 0.001, ** p < 0.01, NS not significant, – test could not be carried out.
²The official data are for the same year as the study except in the case of small stock in Sarysu, for which the official data are from 1996.

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