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Table 2 Statistics of species, gender, and anatomy of captured rodents

From: Echinococcus multilocularis and Echinococcus shiquicus in a small mammal community on the eastern Tibetan Plateau: host species composition, molecular prevalence, and epidemiological implications

Species (n)

No. captured in different quadrats (n)

Sex (n)

Lesionsa

No. 1

No. 2

No. 3

No. 4

Male

Female

Unknown

Cricetulus longicaudatus Long-tailed dwarf hamster (n = 1)

1

–

–

–

–

1

–

–

Phaiomys leucurus Blyth's mountain vole (n = 16)

–

2

7

7

9

7

–

–

Neodon irene Irene's mountain vole (n = 6)

–

-

1

5

3

3

–

–

Microtus limnophilus Lacustrine vole (n = 44)

–

9

20

15

18

26

–

6

Lasiopodomys fuscus Smokey vole (n = 144)

–

14

43

87

74

68

2b

19 (4)

Ochotona curzoniae Plateau pika (n = 135)

65

70

–

–

58

77

–

37 (1)

Total (n = 346)

66

95

71

114

162

182

2

62

  1. Abbreviation: n number of individuals
  2. aThe number of individuals with distinct pathological features/lesions (number of individuals with Echinococcus protoscoleces)
  3. bCarcasses were partly damaged by raptors