Volume 21, Number 7—July 2015
Dispatch
Detection of Circovirus in Foxes with Meningoencephalitis, United Kingdom, 2009–2013
Table 2
Univariate statistical analysis of age, sex, disease signs, and circovirus real-time PCR results for foxes in a study of the detection of circovirus in foxes with meningoencephalitis, United Kingdom, 2009–2013*
Parameter | PCR results for foxes, no. (%)† |
p value by χ2 test | OR (95% CI) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Without neurologic signs | With neurologic signs | |||
All foxes |
15 (46.9) |
17 (53.1) |
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Sex | ||||
M | 9 (60.0) | 8 (47.1) | 0.502 | 1.69 (0.41–6.88) |
F |
6 (40.0) |
9 (52.9) |
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Age, y | ||||
Juvenile | 7 (46.7) | 0 (0) | 0.002 | 3.13 (1.77–5.53) |
Adult |
8 (53.3) |
17 (100) |
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Circovirus positive | ||||
No | 8 (53.3) | 4 (23.5) | 0.144 | 3.71 (0.82–16.84) |
Yes | 7 (46.7) | 13 (76.5) |
*OR, odds ratio.
†Neurologic signs were abnormal behavior, lack of fear, reduced alertness, aimless wandering, circling, facial muscle twitching, progressive weakness of hind legs, and visual abnormalities.