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Table 1 Prevalence of babesial infection in Pteropus rufus across discrete sampling events

From: Babesial infection in the Madagascan flying fox, Pteropus rufus É. Geoffroy, 1803

Site

Mid-date of sampling event

Sex

Prevalence (%) (n positivea/ n tested)

Mahabo

7-19-2014

F

0 (0/12)

M

0 (0/7)

Makira

11-8-2014

F

0 (0/2)

M

0 (0/1)

7-16-2015

F

0 (0/6)

M

16.67 (1/6)

Moramangab

11-19-2013

F

0 (0/16)

M

0 (0/15)

2-22-2014

F

0 (0/1)

M

0 (0/2)

9-12-2014

F

0 (0/5)

M

0 (0/8)

12-9-2014

F

0 (0/28)

M

23.53 (4/17)

3-22-2015

F

0 (0/5)

M

0 (0/22)

5-19-2015

F

0 (0/2)

M

0 (0/9)

1-21-2016

F

0 (0/29)

M

40 (4/10)

  1. aPositives reported here indicate babesiae-positive by PCR
  2. bResults were assessed statistically using GAMs [34] to query the relationship between babesial infection status, site, and month of sampling for male bats; data for females were not assessed since no positives were recovered (see Methods, for details). A significant monthly smoother, indicating a significant interaction between infection status and season, was recovered for male bats of the Moramanga site only (P-value = 0.0841) but not for Makira (P = 0.998) or Mahabo (P = 1), for which longitudinal data were scarce-to-nonexistent
  3. Abbreviations: F female, M male, n number of animals