Table 2.

The number of non-human reads mapped to each filarial genome

Sample of eye discharge	B. malayi	O. volvulus	L. loa	W. bancrofti
Number of reads mapped to filaria genomes	94985	1832	78	4384
Number of unique reads belonging to each species	94841	291	31	2757
Unique reads of each species/total filarial reads	96.9 %	0.3 %	0.03 %	2.8 %