Table 2.

Results of GLMMs with negative binomial error structure testing the effect of month on the number of total and embryonated infective Toxocara eggs per sandpit sample

	Term	Estimate	Std. Error	z-value	P-value
Total number of Toxocara eggs	Intercept	-2.83	0.71	-3.99	< 0.001***
	January	3.83	0.81	4.73	< 0.001***
	February	4.23	0.80	5.26	< 0.001***
	March	2.47	0.82	3.01	0.003**
	April	2.89	0.82	3.53	< 0.001***
	May	2.44	0.83	2.96	0.003**
	June	3.04	0.82	3.70	< 0.001***
	July	1.30	0.86	1.52	0.128
	August	1.49	0.85	1.74	0.082
	October	2.04	0.83	2.46	0.014*
	November	0.92	0.88	1.05	0.294
	December	2.17	0.84	2.60	0.009**
Number of embryonated infective Toxocara eggs	Intercept	-4.06	1.18	-3.43	< 0.001***
	January	3.74	1.32	2.83	0.005**
	February	4.89	1.32	3.71	< 0.001***
	March	1.90	1.37	1.39	0.164
	April	3.27	1.36	2.41	0.016*
	May	0.57	1.49	0.38	0.704
	June	2.04	1.38	1.47	0.141
	July	0.60	1.49	0.40	0.687
	August	0.71	1.48	0.48	0.631
	October	-0.30	1.68	-0.18	0.858
	November	-0.07	1.64	-0.04	0.965
	December	2.36	1.35	1.75	0.081

*P ≤ 0.05, **P ≤ 0.01, ***P ≤ 0.001

September, the month with the lowest contamination rate, was chosen as reference. Asterisks indicate statistically significant differences