Cardio-pulmonary parasites of the European wildcat (Felis silvestris) in Germany

Parasites & Vectors

Table 5 Results of GLM testing the influence of predictor variables on the prevalence of cardio-pulmonary parasites (all species included) in the subset of 103 Felis silvestris

	Cardio-pulmonary parasites
	Estimate	SE	z-value	P-value
Intercept	2.977	1.220	2.439	0.015*
Sex (ref. male)
Female	0.245	0.649	0.378	0.706
Age (ref. adult)
Subadult	−1.708	0.851	−2.008	0.045*
Immature	−0.137	0.867	−0.158	0.874
Juvenile	−3.199	1.232	−2.598	0.009*
Nutritional condition (ref. very good/good)
Moderate	0.020	0.751	0.026	0.979
Bad/cachectic	2.710	1.632	1.660	0.097
Month of finding (ref. January)
February	−2.500	1.478	−1.692	0.091
March	−0.469	1.462	−0.321	0.748
April	0.423	1.667	0.253	0.800
May	−2.580	1.626	−1.586	0.113
June	14.816	1383.132	0.011	0.991
July	0.075	2.152	0.035	0.972
August	−2.170	1.768	−1.228	0.220
September	−0.017	1.536	−0.011	0.991
October	−2.011	1.384	−1.453	0.146
November	−0.163	1.286	−0.127	0.899
December	−0.520	1.621	−0.321	0.748
State of decomposition (ref. fresh)
Moderate fresh/moderate rotten	−0.628	0.769	−0.817	0.414
Proceeded rotten	−2.797	1.234	−2.266	0.023*

The full model was significantly different from a null model containing only the intercept (χ² = 33.9, df = 19, P = 0.019)
SE, standard error
^*Significant P-values (≤ 0.05)

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