Volume 18, Number 8—August 2012
Letter
Zoonotic Pathogens among White-Tailed Deer, Northern Mexico, 2004–2009
Citlaly Medrano, Mariana Boadella, Hugo Barrios, Antonio Cantú, Zeferino García, José de la Fuente, and Christian Gortazar
Table
Prevalence of serum antibodies against zoonotic pathogen antigens among white-tailed deer on 8 ranches, northern Mexico, 2004–2009*
| Ranch no. | State | Municipality | Sample size | No. positive/no. tested (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HEV | Brucella spp. | Bovine PPD | PPA3 | ||||
| 1 | Tamaulipas | Guerrero | 1 | 0/1 (0) | 0/1 (0) | 0/1 (0) | 0/1 (0) |
| 2 | Tamaulipas | Guerrero | 106 | 41/71 (57.7) | 0/102 (0) | 9/102 (8.8) | 0/102 (0) |
| 3 | Tamaulipas | Nuevo Laredo | 37 | 21/27 (77.7) | 0 | 0/37 (0) | 0/37 (0) |
| 4 | Nuevo León | Unknown | 35 | 0 | 0 | 3/35 (8.5) | 2/35 (5.7) |
| 5 | Coahuila | Guerrero | 35 | 1/1 (100) | 0/33 (0) | 2/33 (6.0) | 1/33 (3.0) |
| 6 | Coahuila | Guerrero | 50 | 6/17 (35.2) | 0/40 (0) | 3/40 (7.5) | 0/40 (0) |
| 7 | Coahuila | Hidalgo | 17 | 4/6 (66.6) | 1/16 (6.2) | 3/16 (18.7) | 5/16 (31.2) |
| 8 | Coahuila | Guerrero | 66 | 16/19 (84.2) | 0/39 (0) | 7/39 (18.0) | 0/39 (0) |
| NA | Total | NA | 347 | 89/142 (62.7) | 1/231 (0.4) | 27/303 (8.9) | 8/303 (2.6) |
*HEV, hepatitis E virus; PPD, purified protein derivative; PPA3, paratuberculosis protoplasmatic antigen 3; NA, not applicable.
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