Microbiological assessment of sheep lymph nodes with lymphadenitis found during post-mortem examination of slaughtered sheep: implications for veterinary-sanitary meat control

Table 2 Effects of age and grazing type on the occurrence of purulent or caseous lymphadenitis in the mediastinal and tracheobronchial lymph nodes of sheep

Source	B	Waldχ²	Df	P	ODDS
Intercept	− 3.621	43.46	1	< 0.001	0.027
Age	0.015	11.80	1	0.001	1.015
Grazing (local)	1.504	15.74	1	< 0.001	4.500

Binary logistic regression model (χ² = 22.14; df = 2; P < 0.001), all predictors statistically significant. B regression coefficient, Wald χ² Wald Chi Squared Test of significance of each predictor, Df degrees of freedom, P calculated probability, ODDS odds ratio-the exponentiation of the B coefficient (exp(B))

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