Vetnews | November 2025 26 « BACK TO CONTENTS Article Line equation R2 p-value p-value test for normality of residuals* y = 0.026x – 51.36 0.38 0.042 0.798 Table 2: Results of linear regression with the year as the dependent variable and the case rate as the independent variable. *Shapiro-Wilk test Figure 7: Scatterplot and linear regression for case rate of UO over time References available on request. Data availability The datasets analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. Received: 11 February 2025; Accepted: 16 July 2025 Author contributions Conceptualisation: (RSM and PTCGO); Methodology: (RSM, HDMG, RG, AM, and PTCGO); Formal analysis and investigation: (RSM, HDMG, and PTCGO); Writing - original draft: (RSM, LGDB, and PTCGO); Writing – review and editing: (RSM, HDMG, LGDB, SRM, FBCM, DR, and PTCGO); Resources: (RSM, LGDB, MGPA, DR, AM, ASO, and PTCGO); Supervision: (PTCGO). Additional information Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at https://doi. org/10.1038/s41598-02512360-5. Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to P.T.C.G.O. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. © The Author(s) 2025 v Email: assistant@sava.co.za ADVERTISE IN VETNEWS MAGAZINE
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