Table 2.
Subgroup meta-analysis to compare prevalence of global bird schistosomes.
| Subgroup | n | Prevalence (%) (95%CI) |
I-square (%) |
p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Continent | Americas | 11 | 43.0(29.0–56.0) | 96.2 | <0.001 |
| Oceania | 3 | 18.0(10.0–17.0) | 81.3 | ||
| Asia | 8 | 13.0(10.0–18.0) | 73.1 | ||
| Europe | 17 | 38.0(27.0–50.0) | 87.3 | ||
| Africa | 2 | 14.0(13.0–16.0) | 70.8 | ||
| Method | Morphological | 27 | 36.0 (28.0–44.0) | 97.6 | 0.79 |
| Morphological and molecular | 9 | 32.0 (19.0–46.0) | 95.4 | ||
| Molecular | 5 | 30.0 (11.0–53.0) | 90.2 | ||
| aParasite species | Bird schistosomes | 6 | 31.0 (18.0–46.0) | 96.50 | 0.58 |
| Trichobilharzia regenti | 6 | 21.0 (6.0–37.0) | 96.7 | ||
| Allobilharzia visceralis | 4 | 50.0(0.30–0.97) | 95.3 | ||
| Trichobilharzia sp | 12 | 32.0(0.21–0.36) | 97.9 |
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For some subgroups there was only one study.