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

Table 6 The summary proportion ranking (1st, 2nd, 3rd,4th, and 5th) of inspected organs/tissue featuring grossly visible lesions at the 12 surveyed public abattoirs

Organ/tissue	Ranking of carcass lesion distribution in three agro-ecological regions
	Overall priority rank N = 12					Highland (Dega) N = 4					Midland (Wonadega) N = 3					Lowland (kola) N = 5
	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
a	0.67	0.25	0.08	0	0	0.75	0	0.25	0	0	0.67	0.33	0	0	0	0.6	0.4	0	0	0
b	0.17	0.25	0.42	0.17	0	0.25	0.25	0.5	0	0	0	0.33	0.33	0.33	0	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.2	0
c	0	0.17	0.17	0.33	0.33	0	0.25	0	0.25	0.5	0	0	0.33	0.33	0.33	0	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.2
d	0	0	0.17	0.33	0.5	0	0	0	0.5	0.5	0	0	0.33	0	0.67	0	0	0.2	0.4	0.4
e	0.17	0.33	0.17	0.17	0.17	0	0.5	0.25	0.25	0	0.33	0.33	0	0.33	0	0.2	0.2	0.2	0	0.4

LN = lymph node
a = Lung, mediastinal and bronchial LN; b = Liver and hepatic LN; c = Spleen; d = Kidney; e = Intestine and mesenteric LN

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