Table 3 Mean sojourn time (in days) for fish to remain infected across significant predictors (fish sex, fish size, fish stock and parasite strain) based on the fitted multi-state Markov model
Parasite strain | Fish stock | Male fish | Female fish | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small | Medium | Large | Small | Medium | Large | ||
(11 mm) | (17 mm) | (26 mm) | (11 mm) | (17 mm) | (26 mm) | ||
Gt3 | OS | 10.69 | 11.33 | 11.79 | 11.40 | 12.13 | 12.64 |
LA | 9.52 | 10.03 | 10.40 | 10.49 | 11.12 | 11.56 | |
UA | 6.78 | 7.04 | 7.22 | 8.06 | 8.43 | 8.69 | |
Gt | OS | 11.52 | 12.26 | 12.79 | 12.01 | 12.81 | 13.37 |
LA | 10.67 | 11.31 | 11.76 | 11.38 | 12.11 | 12.62 | |
UA | 8.32 | 8.71 | 8.99 | 9.49 | 10.00 | 10.36 | |
Gb | OS | 10.71 | 11.35 | 11.81 | 11.42 | 12.14 | 12.66 |
LA | 9.54 | 10.06 | 10.43 | 10.51 | 11.14 | 11.58 | |
UA | 6.81 | 7.07 | 7.25 | 8.09 | 8.46 | 8.72 | |