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Volume 25, Number 2—February 2019
Dispatch

Cytauxzoon felis Infection in Domestic Cats, Yunnan Province, China, 2016

Feng-Cai Zou1, Zhao Li1, Jian-Fa Yang, Jiang-Yan Chang, Guo-Hua Liu, Yan Lv, and Xing-Quan ZhuComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health of Higher Education of Yunnan Province, College of Veterinary Medicine, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China (F.-C. Zou, Z. Li, J.-F. Yang, J.-Y. Chang, Y. Lv); State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China (Z. Li, X.-Q. Zhu); College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China (G.-H. Liu)

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Table

Prevalence of Cytauxzoon felis protozoan in whole blood samples from domestic cats determined by PCR, Yunnan Province, China, 2016

Variable No. positive/no. tested Prevalence, % (95% CI) p value Odds ratio (95% CI)
Lifestyle
Stray 38/74 51.4 (40.0–62.7) <0.001 7.6 (4.2–13.7)
Pet
 29/237
 12.2 (8.1–16.4)
Referent
Region
Banna Prefecture 19/38 50.0 (34.1–65.9) <0.001 10.8 (4.8–24.5)
Honghe Prefecture 5/15 33.3 (9.5–57.2) 5.4 (1.6–17.8)
Lincang City 14/21 66.7 (46.5–86.8) 21.6 (7.6–61.3)
Kunming City 16/189 8.5 (4.5–12.4) Referent
Yuxi City
 13/48
 27.1 (14.5–39.7)
4.0 (1.8–9.1)
Sex
F 38/172 22.1 (15.9–28.3) 0.89 1.1 (0.6–1.9)
M
 29/139
 20.9 (14.1–27.6)
Referent
Age, y
<5 21/83 25.3 (15.9–34.7) 0.18 1.8 (0.9–3.4)
5–10 22/133 16.5 (10.2–22.9) Referent
>10
 24/95
 25.3 (16.5–34.0)
1.7 (0.9–3.3)
Total 67/311 21.5 (17.0–26.1)

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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