Table 3. Detection frequency of pathogens causing calf diarrhea from non-diarrheic and diarrheic feces of Korean native calves in Korea and association between a positive detection and calf diarrhea

Pathogens Positive in overall samples Positive in non-diarrheic calves Positive in diarrheic calves p-value Odds ratio
Eimeria species 27.4% (149/544) 25.0% (85/340) 31.4% (64/340) 0.113 1.37 (0.93–2.01)1)
Bovine rotavirus group A 8.8% (48/544) 5.0% (17/340) 15.2% (31/204) < 0.001 3.41 (1.83–6.33)
Bovine Coronavirus 8.5% (46/544) 7.4% (25/340) 10.3% (21/204) 0.266 1.45 (0.79–2.66)
Cryptosporidium parvum 4.4% (24/544) 2.1% (7/340) 8.3% (17/204) 0.001 4.33 (1.76–10.62)
BVDV 0.7% (4/544) 1.2% (4/340) 0% (0/204) 0.302 0.99 (0.98–1.00)
Escherichia coli K99 0.2% (1/544) 0% (0/340) 0.5% (1/204) 0.375 1.005 (1.00–1.02)
Salmonella species 0% (0/544) 0% (0/340) 0% (0/204) - -
Number in parentheses is the 95% confidence interval of the estimated odds ratio.