A Two-Years' Survey on the Prevalence of Tuberculosis Caused by Mycobacterium caprae in Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) in the Tyrol, Austria

Table 1

Numbers of sampled animals per each hunting plot in the study area. The number of culture positive animals among each sampled population is given in brackets.

	Male			Female		Calves	Total
Age category in years	<5 (III)	5–9 (II)	>9 (I)	<2 (III)	>2 (II)	<1
Plot “Lechtal I”	8 (2)	2 (2)	1	2	8 (2)	5	26 (6)
Plot “Lechtal Mitte”	6	5 (1)	3	2 (1)	7 (1)	8	31 (3)
Plot “Lechtal II”	9	9	3	4	9	10	44
Plot “Tannheimertal”	5	6	2	2	7	4	26
Plot “Schwarzwasser”	2	3	2	1	5	3	16
Total study area	30 (2)	25 (3)	11	11 (1)	36 (3)	30	143 (9)