Table 2

Knowledge of practitioners of transmission of common zoonoses

Variable
Rural
Urban
Likelihood ratio/Fisher's exact test p-value


No. gave correct response
%
No. gave wrong response
%
No. gave correct response
%
No. gave wrong response
%


Transmission anthrax
9
69.23
4
30.77
15
93.75
1
6.25
0.14*

Transmission brucellosis
12
92.31
1
7.69
10
66.67
5
33.33
0.17*

Transmission Rabies
15
93.75
1
6.25
18
94.74
1
5.26
1*

Transmission trypanosomiasis
7
46.67
8
53.33
16
80.00
4
20.00
0.04

Transmission bovine TB
11
84.62
2
15.38
15
88.24
2
11.76
1 *

Transmission echinococcosis
4
23.53
13
76.47
8
44.44
10
55.56
0.19

* Fisher's exact test p value

John et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2008 8:162   doi:10.1186/1471-2334-8-162