Lesion Distribution and Epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis in Elk and White-Tailed Deer in South-Western Manitoba, Canada

Table 4

Proportion of culture positive elk with gross visible lesions (GVL) in different tissues and body sections stratified by sex.

	Lung^a GVL	Medial Retropharyngeal GVL	Parotid GVL	Tonsil GVL	Abdominal GVL^b	Body GVL^c
Male	13/20 (65.0)	6/22 (27.3)	7/22 (31.8)	11/22 (50.0)	4/15 (26.7)	5/15 (33.3)
Female	6/19 (31.6)	6/19 (31.6)	2/19 (10.5)	8/19 (42.1)	4/15 (26.7)	6/15 (40.0)
χ ^2	4.24 (0.039)	0.089 (0.765)	2.63 (0.105)	0.249 (0.618)	0.0 (1.0)	0.139 (0.710)
Odds Ratio	4.02 (0.89–18.9)	0.81 (0.35–2.16)	3.97 (0.60–43.5)	1.38 (0.34–5.65)	1.0 (0.31–3.28)	0.75 (0.33–2.04)

^aIncludes tracheobronchial and mediastinal lymphoid tissues.
^bIncludes mesenteric, hepatic, portal, and internal iliac lymph nodes.
^cIncludes prescapular, prefemoral, supramammary/testicular, and popliteal lymph nodes.