Table 4

Knowledge of urban and rural practitioners on diagnosis of 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
%


Diagnosis anthrax
7
43.75
9
56.25
10
58.82
7
41.18
0.38

Diagnosis brucellosis
13
86.67
2
13.33
9
56.25
7
43.75
0.11*

Diagnosis rabies
5
33.33
10
66.67
9
60.00
6
40.00
0.14

Diagnosis trypanosomiasis
12
75.00
4
25.00
16
84.21
3
15.79
0.68*

Diagnosis bovine TB
2
33.33
4
66.67
8
47.06
9
52.94
0.66*

Diagnosis echinococcosis
12
75.00
4
25.00
15
78.95
4
21.05
0.09

* Fisher's exact test p value

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