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. 2020 Feb 21;11:229–234. doi: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2020.02.005

Table 3.

Hepatozoon prevalence, with Jefferys confidence intervals (Jeff. C.I.), among medium and small sized mammals sampled from two sites in eastern Texas (Gus Engeling WMA and Big Thicket National Preserve). Positives columns represent numbers of infected individuals (outside parenthesis) and total sample size (n, in parenthesis).

Species Overall
Gus Engeling WMA
Big Thicket National Preserve
positives (n) Prevalence (Jeff. C.I.) positives (n) Prevalence (Jeff. C.I.) positives (n) Prevalence (Jeff. C.I.)
Medium sized mammal species Didelphis virginiana 0 (37) 0.00 (0.00–0.05) 0 (11) 0.00 (0.00–0.16) 0 (26) 0.00 (0.00–0.07)
Procyon lotor 5 (15) 0.33 (0.14–0.58) 3 (12) 0.25 (0.08–0.53) 2 (3) 0.67 (0.18–0.96)
Urocyon cinereoargeneus 0 (1) 0.00 (0.00–0.77) 0 (1) 0.00 (0.00–0.77)
Overall 5 (53) 0.09 (0.04–0.19) 3 (23) 0.13 (0.04–0.31) 2 (30) 0.07 (0.01–0.20)



Small mammal species Baiomys taylorii 0 (1) 0.00 (0.00–0.77) 0 (1) 0.00 (0.00–0.77)
Cryptotis parva 0 (12) 0.00 (0.00–0.15) 0 (12) 0.00 (0.00–0.15)
Glaucomys volans 0 (1) 0.00 (0.00–0.77) 0 (1) 0.00 (0.00–0.77)
Neotoma floridana 1 (73) 0.01 (0.00–0.06) 1 (46) 0.02 (0.00–0.10) 0 (27) 0.00 (0.00–0.07)
Ochrotomys nuttalli 0 (59) 0.00 (0.00–0.03) 0 (32) 0.00 (0.00–0.06) 0 (27) 0.00 (0.00–0.07)
Oryzomys texicanii 0 (1) 0.00 (0.00–0.77) 0 (1) 0.00 (0.00–0.77)
Peromyscus gossypinus 2 (209) 0.01 (0.00–0.03) 2 (83) 0.02 (0.01–0.08) 0 (126) 0.00 (0.00–0.02)
Peromyscus leucopus 0 (28) 0.00 (0.00–0.07) 0 (16) 0.00 (0.00–0.11) 0 (12) 0.00 (0.00–0.15)
Reithrodontomys fulvescens 0 (23) 0.00 (0.00–0.08) 0 (14) 0.00 (0.00–0.13) 0 (9) 0.00 (0.00–0.19)
Sigmodon hispidus 0 (20) 0.00 (0.00–0.09) 0 (11) 0.00 (0.00–0.16) 0 (9) 0.00 (0.00–0.19)
Overall 3 (427) 0.01 (0.00–0.02) 3 (204) 0.01 (0.00–0.03) 0 (223) 0.00 (0.00–0.01)