Figure 1. Effect of Taenia co-infection on prevalence of E. multilocularis.

Using a Bayesian latent-class model, prevalence of E. multilocularis in Taenia test-negative dogs was estimated at 12.2% (95% credible intervals 7.6–18.9%), and in Taenia test-positive dogs was estimated at 22.3 (95% credible intervals 8.2–47.7%). Taenia co-infection was found to be a significant covariate with E. multilocularis infection (odds ratio 2.06, 95% credible intervals 1.07–3.9). In the figure the posterior distributions of the prevalence of E. multilocularis with (blue) and without (red) Taenia co-infection are shown.