Volume 29, Number 3—March 2023
Research
Prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex among Wild Rhesus Macaques and 2 Subspecies of Long-Tailed Macaques, Thailand, 2018–2022
Suthirote Meesawat, Saradee Warit, Yuzuru Hamada, and Suchinda Malaivijitnond
Table 4
Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in throat swabs using IS6110-specific nested PCR in 32 populations of macaques, Thailand, 2018–2022*
| Species (common name) | Age group | Male |
Female |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive, % (95% CI) | Positive, % (95% CI) | Positive, % (95% CI) | ||
| Macaca mulatta (rhesus) |
Adult | 12, 18.2 (8.9–27.5) | 19, 28.8 (17.9–39.7) | 31, 47.0 (24.4–47.6) |
| Subadult | 9, 13.6 (5.4–21.9) | 10, 15.2 (6.5–23.8) | 19, 28.8 (17.9–39.7) | |
| Juvenile | 9, 13.6 (5.4–21.9) | 7, 10.6 (0.8–13.2) | 16, 24.2 (13.9–34.6) | |
| Total |
30, 45.5 (33.4–57.5) |
36, 54.5 (24.4–47.6) |
66, 100.0 (100.0–100.0) |
|
| M. fascicularis fascicularis (common long-tailed) |
Adult | 15, 26.8 (15.2–38.4) | 13, 23.2 (12.1–34.3) | 28, 50.0 (36.9–63.1) |
| Subadult | 9, 16.1 (6.5–25.7) | 9, 16.1 (6.5–25.7) | 18, 32.1 (19.9–44.4) | |
| Juvenile | 6, 10.7 (2.6–18.8) | 4, 7.1 (0.4–13.9) | 10, 17.9 (7.8–27.9) | |
| Total |
30, 53.6 (40.5–66.6) |
26, 46.4 (33.4–59.5) |
56, 100.0 (100.0–100.0) |
|
| M. fascicularis aurea (Burmese long-tailed) |
Adult | 3, 50.0 (10.0–90.0) | 0 | 3, 50.0 (10.0–90.0) |
| Subadult | 1, 16.7 (0.0–46.5) | 0 | 1, 16.7 (0.0–46.5) | |
| Juvenile | 2, 33.3 (0.0–71.1) | 0 | 2, 33.3 (0.0–71.1) | |
| Total |
6, 100.0 (100.0–100.0) |
0 |
6, 100.0 (100.0–100.0) |
|
| All |
Total |
66, 51.6 (42.9–60.2) |
62, 48.4 (39.8–57.1) |
128, 100.0 (100.0–100.0) |
| *Bold indicates significant difference (p <0.05) from other species | ||||
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