Figure 2.

Conventional PCR sensitivity presented as a proportion of positive samples relative to all Bartonella-positive samples identified by six PCR assays altogether. Successful detection (including low-quality sequences) is indicated by pictograms of host species (hedgehogs: black = E. europaeus, yellow = E. roumanicus). In the case of species-specific gltA* PCR, the proportion is calculated from B. washoensis-positive samples only. The number of identified Bartonella species for a particular PCR assay (from the total of six detected species) is summarized below the chart.