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Table 2 Numbers of rodents and shrews positive for Yersinia pestis DNA gene

From: Serological and PCR investigation of Yersinia pestis in potential reservoir hosts from a plague outbreak focus in Zambia

Animal species

Number tested

No. of PCR positive

95% confidence interval (CI)a

Mastomys natalensis

72

3 (4.2%)

0.87–11.70

Rattus rattus

16

1 (6.25%)

0.16–30.23

Saccostomus spp.

15

0

 

Tatera spp.

2

0

 

Graphiurus spp.

2

0

 

Crocidura spp.

86

1 (1.2%)

0.03–6.31

Mus pp

2

0

 

Acomys spp.

1

0

 

Total

199

5 (2.5%)

0.82–5.77

  1. aClopper–Pearson exact CI method was used