Assessment of physical facilities and detection of post-mortem lesions in public abattoirs in selected districts of Wolaita zone, Ethiopia

Table 4 The summary proportion ranking (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th) of postmortem pathology at selected municipal abattoirs

Grossly visible lesion categories	Lesion designations^†	Proportion of abattoir lesion priority in different agro-ecological regions
		Overall priority rank				Highland (Dega)				Midland (Wonadega)				Lowland (Kola)
		N = 12				N = 4				N = 3				N = 5
		1st	2nd	3rd	4th	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Soft	a	0	0.58	0.25	0.17	0	0.5	0.25	0.25	0	0.67	0	0.33	0	0.6	0.2	0.2
	b	0.25	0	0.42	0.33	0.25	0	0.25	0.5	0.33	0	0.33	0.33	0.2	0	0.4	0.4
	c	0.08	0.17	0.25	0.5	0	0.25	0.5	0.25	0	0	0.67	0.33	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.2
Hard	d	0.67	0.25	0.08	0	0.75	0.25	0	0	0.67	0.33	0	0	0.6	0.2	0	0.2

^†Lesion designations: (a) cystic: cystic lesions with aqueous content – these are likely parasitic in nature (i.e. tapeworm cysts, hydatidosis); (b) caseous/abscess: potentially include tuberculous lesions, but a proportion could also be caused by pyogenic bacteria; (c) fibrotic: fibrosis of the biliary system and the lungs; and (d) mineralised/calcified lesions – possible suspect tuberculous lesions

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