Table 1. Prevalence and mean intensity of Hepatozoon and Eimeriorina parasites for the two lizard species analysed in this study, estimated using three different methods.
| Hepatozoon | Eimeriorina | |||||||||
| qPCR | PCR | Microscopy | qPCR (Blood Kit) | PCR | Microscopy* | |||||
| Host species | Sex | Prevalence | Mean Intensity (log(copy number)) | Prevalence | Prevalence | Mean Intensity (% ± std) | Prevalence | Prevalence | Prevalence | Mean Intensity (% ± std) |
| Podarcis | Female | 13/22 (59%) | 1.23±0.26 | 10/22 (45%) | 5/16 (31%) | 0.12±0.10 | 0/22 (0%) | 1/22 (5%) | 0/16 (0%) | - |
| bocagei | Male | 24/29 (83% | 2.20±0.28 | 17/29 (59%) | 14/25 (56%) | 0.22±0.08 | 3/29 (10%) | 2/29 (7%) | 3/25 (12%) | 0.16±0.12 |
| 37/51 (73%) | 1.74±0.20 | 27/51 (53%) | 19/41 (46%) | 0.18±0.06 | 3/51 (6%) | 3/51 (6%) | 3/41 (7%) | - | ||
| Podarcis | Female | 16/18 (89%) | 1.80±0.26 | 11/18 (61%) | 7/14 (50%) | 0.11±0.05 | 0/18 (0%) | 0/18 (0%) | 1/14 (7%) | 0.02 |
| hispanica | Male | 16/18 (89%) | 2.94±0.33 | 13/18 (72%) | 12/17 (71%) | 0.73±0.24 | 1/18 (6%) | 2/18 (11%) | 1/17 (6%) | 0.02 |
| 32/36 (89%) | 2.37±0.23 | 24/36 (67%) | 19/31 (61%) | 0.45±0.15 | 1/36 (3%) | 2/36 (6%) | 2/31 (6%) | 0.02±0.00 | ||
| n = 87 (79%) | n = 81 | n = 87 (59%) | n = 72 (53%) | n = 72 | n = 87 (5%) | n = 87 (6%) | n = 72 (7%) | n = 72 |
* These were found inside erythrocytes, except for one that was found in a leukocyte (Fig. 1).