Prevalence of selected infectious agents in Swedish cats with fever and/or anemia compared to cats without fever and/or anemia and to stable/stray cats

Table 2 Estimated prevalence rates for different pathogens sorted by inclusion group

Summary of test results	Positive test results n
Summary of test results	prevalence % and [confidence interval %]
Group	AF	CC	SS	Total
Total numbers of samples	42	34	16	92
Bartonella spp. IgG	13	17	10	40
Bartonella spp. IgG	31 [19–46]	50 [34–66]	63 [39–82]	43 [34–54]
Bartonella spp. PCR	0	0	1	1
Bartonella spp. PCR	0 [0.0-8.4]	0 [0.0–10]	6.2 [1.1–28]	1.1 [0.19–5.9]
Anaplasma/Ehrlichia species	0	0	0	0
Anaplasma/Ehrlichia species	0 [0.0-8.4]	0 [0.0–10]	0 [0.0–19]	0 [0.0–4.0]
Feline foamy virus antibodies	21	11	10	41
Feline foamy virus antibodies	50 [36–65]	32 [19–49]	63 [39–82]	45 [35–55]
Feline immunodeficiency virus antibodies	0	1	2	3
Feline immunodeficiency virus antibodies	0 [0.0-8.4]	2.9 [0.52-15]	13 [3.5–36]	3.3 [1.1–9.2]
Feline leukemia virus antigen	1	0	0	1
Feline leukemia virus antigen	2.4 [0.42-12]	0 [0.0–10]	0 [0.0–19]	1.1 [0.19–5.9]
Felis catus gammaherpesvirus-1 antibodies	25	25	12	62
Felis catus gammaherpesvirus-1 antibodies	60 [45–73]	74 [57–85]	75 [51–90]	67 [57–76]
Haemotropic Mycoplasma PCR	2	3	2	7
Haemotropic Mycoplasma PCR	4.8 [1.3–16]	8.8 [3.0–23]	13 [3.5–36]	7.6 [3.7–15]
Toxoplasma gondii antibodies	15	8	11	34
Toxoplasma gondii antibodies	36 [23–51]	24 [12–40]	69 [44–86]	37 [28–47]

AF anemia/fever group, CC control cat group, SS stray/stable group
(% positive) [95% Confidence interval]
Prevalence is described as percentage of positive test results, out of tested samples in each category, and 95% confidence interval, as a range of percent

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