Table 7.
Occurrence of single and multiple infections in the four target species infected with at least one species of haemoparasite.
| Number infected (% of infected birds) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indigo Bunting n = 12a |
Northern Cardinal n = 69 |
Tufted Titmouse n = 21 |
White-throated Sparrow n = 44 |
|
| Single parasite | ||||
| Haemoproteus only | 8 (67) | 39 (57) | 5 (24) | 18 (41) |
| Plasmodium only | 3 (25) | 7 (10) | 4 (19) | 2 (5) |
| Leucocytozoon only | 0 | 3 (4) | 2 (10) | 9 (20) |
| Microfilaria only | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (7) |
| Trypanosoma only | 1 (8) | 3 (4) | 2 (10) | 0 |
| Two parasites | ||||
| Haemoproteus + Plasmodium | 0 | 9 (13) | 1 (5) | 4 (9) |
| Haemoproteus + Leucocytozoon | 0 | 4 (6) | 0 | 4 (9) |
| Haemoproteus + microfilaria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (5) |
| Haemoproteus + Trypanosoma | 0 | 2 (3) | 2 (10) | 0 |
| Plasmodium + microfilaria | 0 | 1 (1) | 1 (5) | 0 |
| Plasmodium + Trypanosoma | 0 | 0 | 4 (19) | 0 |
| Leucocytozoon + Trypanosoma | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (2) |
| Three parasites | ||||
| Haemoproteus + Plasmodium + microfilaria | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 | 0 |
| All five parasites | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (2) |
a
Number of birds infected with at least one parasite type.