Infection risk varies within urbanized landscapes: the case of coyotes and heartworm

Parasites & Vectors

Table. 3 Relationship between heartworm infection and coyote age class and year (n = 315)

Predictors	Estimate	SE	z	Pr(> \|z\|)	OR	95% CI
(Intercept)	−0.52	0.56	−0.93	0.35	0.6	(0.2–1.79)
Age class (subadult)	−1.005	0.35	−2.87	0.004	0.37	(0.18–0.73)
Age class (pup)	−1.74	0.41	−4.2	< 0.001	0.18	(0.08–0.4)
Year	−2.14	1.12	−1.9	0.06	0.12	(0.01–1.07)
Year (quadratic)	1.44	0.52	2.75	0.006	4.21	(1.5–11.9)

Predictors were obtained from the best fit GLMM (Additional file 1: Table S3)
For age class, adult is the reference level. Significant terms are those for which 95% confidence intervals [CI] do not overlap with 1 and P < 0.05. SE is the standard error, Pr(> |z|) the P-value associated with the z statistic, and OR the odds ratio

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