Epidemiology and Molecular Characterizations of Coronavirus from Companion Animals Living in Chengdu, Southwest China

Table 1

Correlation of the CoV prevalence with different clinical symptoms, gender, age and seasons.

Variables	Number of animals (n = 393)	CoV-positiveanimals (n = 146)	CoV-negativeanimals (n = 247)	value
Clinical status
Presenting clinical symptoms	170	67 (39.4%)	103 (60.6%)	>0.05
Healthy animals	223	79 (35.4%)	144 (64.6%)
Gender
Male	219	87 (39.7%)	132 (60.3%)	>0.05
Female	165	57 (34.5%)	108 (65.5%)
Age
≤6 months	181	78 (43.1%)	103 (56.9%)	<0.05
>6 months	208	67 (32.2%)	141 (57.8%)
Species
Cats	270	97 (35.9%)	173 (64.1%)	>0.05
Dogs	123	49 (39.8%)	74 (60.2%)
Seasons
Spring	121	59 (48.8%)	62 (51.2%)	<0.05
Summer	101	32 (31.7%)	69 (68.3%)
Autumn	43	7 (16.3%)	36 (83.7%)
Winter	128	48 (37.5%)	80 (62.5%)