Table 5.

Impact of sex on the occurrence of E. aerophilus in fox lungs

Country	Sample type	Male foxes			Female foxes			References
		na	Prevalence (%)	95% CI	na	Prevalence (%)	95% CI
Norway	Lungs	111	89.19	82.05–93.71	70	87.14	77.33–93.08	Davidson et al. [21]
Romania	Lungs	315	77.46*	72.53–81.73	235	65.96*	59.51–71.99	Deak et al. [58]
Spain	Lungs	46	32.61	19.5–48.0	41	26.83	14.2–42.9	Garrido-Castañé et al. [59]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Lungs	123	73.17	64.73–80.21	98	65.31	55.47–73.99	Hodžić et al. [63]
Spain	Lungs	149	34.23	27.09–42.16	108	32.41	24.32–41.71	Martínez-Rondán et al. [73]
UK	Lungs	143	60.84*	52.66–68.46	128	40.63*	32.52–49.29	Morgan et al. [74]
Denmark	Lungs	381	74.54	69.94–78.65	367	73.57	68.83–77.28	Saeed et al. [20]

CI Confidence interval

*Statistically significant differences in prevalence at P < 0.05

^aSize of the study population