Prevalence of Staphylococcus Species Colonization in Healthy and Sick Cats

Table 1

Demographic characteristics of the investigated cats.

	Category	Number of investigated households	Number of cats	Sex		Breed		Age
				Female; (%)	Male; (%)	Crossbreed; (%)	Breed (%)	≤6; (month)			7–36; (month)			≥37; (month)
								%	x−	σ	%	x−	σ	%	x−	σ
Healthy cats	Multiple feline	101	150	48.00	52.00	72.00	28.00	8.00	4.67	1.61	47.33	18.65	9.07	44.67	82.03	39.35
	Single feline	116	116	54.31	45.69	60.34	39.66	10.34	5.08	1.31	62.07	17.54	9.30	27,59	95.03	43.44
	Purebreed cats	18	182	60.99	39.01	-	100	24.18	2.91	1.12	64.84	22.35	9.70	10.99	70.91	28.05
	Feral cats	-	72	69.4	30.6	100	-	5.56	5.75	0.5	91.67	16.12	843	27.78	48.00	0
Sick cats	Multiple feline	13	30	46.67	53.33	86.67	13.33	46.67	4.43	1.50	33.33	29.80	7.33	20.00	73.33	35.14
	Single feline	17	17	52.94	47.06	58.82	41.18	35.29	2.33	1.86	52.94	16.44	7.72	11.76	60.00	0
	Purebreed cats	2	20	65.00	35.00	-	100	70.00	3.55	1.21	25.00	24.8	9.01	5.00	48	0

x: arithmetic mean.
Σ: standard deviation.