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Table 3 Prevalences of infection of the first intermediate slug species  Ariostralis nebulosa  by cercariogenous sporocysts of  Renylaima capensis  according to years and months

From: Life cycle of Renylaima capensis, a brachylaimid trematode of shrews and slugs in South Africa: two-host and three-host transmission modalities suggested by epizootiology and DNA sequencing

Year of collection

Month (and day) of collection

No. of slugs collected

No. infected with sporocysts

1982

April 23

10

4 (40%)

 

July 19

4

1 (25%)

1983

March 2

2

0 (0%)

 

April 23

4

1 (25%)

2004

October 19

4

0 (0%)

1983-2006 period

March-September

127

26 (20.5%)

 

October-February

47

2 (4%)

2009

in February, a fire burnt a large part of the habitat

2009

May 9

3

0 (0%)

2010

February 10

0

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April 26

21

0 (0%)

 

October 11

5

0 (0%)

2011

February 22

15

1 (6.6%)

 

May 11

21

3 (14%)

 

July 14

7

0 (0%)

Total

 

263

38 (14.4%)