Table 1.
Wildlife species distribution, counts, and prevalence of pathogens in each regions of Serengeti, Ruaha, and Selous.
| Serengeti | Ruaha | Selous | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Count | Positive | Prevalence (95% CI) | Species | Total | Positive | Prevalence (95% CI) | Species | Total | Positive | Prevalence (95% CI) |
| Wildebeest | 420 | 14 | 3.3 (1.9–5.7) | Dikdik | 422 | 21 | 5.0 (3.2–7.6) | Gazelle | 243 | 2 | 0.8 (0.14–3.3) |
| Buffalo | 159 | 1 | 0.6 (0.3–4.0) | Gazelle | 335 | – | – | Kudu | 109 | – | – |
| Zebra | 61 | 2 | 3.3 (0.6–12.4) | Kudu | 171 | – | – | Buffalo | 89 | 2 | 2.2 (0.4–8.6) |
| Impala | 60 | 1 | 1.7 (0.1–10.1) | Impala | 108 | 1 | 0.93 (0.05–5.8) | Dikdik | 81 | 1 | 1.2 (0.06–7.6) |
| Gazelle | 26 | – | – | Buffalo | 95 | 1 | 1.1 (0.05–6.6) | Hartebeest | 79 | – | – |
| Bushpig | 25 | 1 | 4 (2.1–22.3) | Hartebeest | 95 | – | – | Widebeest | 65 | 1 | 1.5 (0.08–9.4) |
| Unknown | 25 | – | – | Bushpig | 73 | – | – | Bushpig | 55 | 2 | 3.6 (0.6–13.6) |
| Topi | 22 | 1 | 4.5 (0.2–24.9) | Griaffe | 65 | – | – | Impala | 46 | 6 | 13.0 (5.4–26.9) |
| Eland | 19 | 1 | 5.3 (0.3–28.1) | Duiker | 55 | – | – | Bushbuck | 42 | – | – |
| Giraffe | 19 | – | – | Reedbuck | 37 | – | – | Unknown | 40 | – | – |
| Ostrich | 12 | – | – | Warthog | 34 | – | – | Hippo | 39 | 2 | 5.1 (0.9–18.6) |
| Warthog | 11 | – | – | Zebra | 34 | – | – | Hare | 37 | 3 | 8 (2.1–23) |
| Leopard | 8 | – | – | Sable | 28 | – | – | Cattle | 35 | 9 | 25.7 (13.1–45.7) |
| Porcupine | 7 | – | – | Unknown | 20 | – | – | Ostrich | 33 | – | – |
| Waterbuck | 7 | – | – | Wild cat | 20 | – | – | Zebra | 33 | 3 | 9.1 (2.4–25.5) |
| Dikdik | 6 | – | – | Mongoose | 18 | – | – | Duiker | 29 | – | – |
| Hartebeest | 6 | – | – | Roan | 13 | – | – | Cane rat | 28 | 1 | 3.6 (0.2–20.2) |
| Hippo | 6 | – | – | Hare | 12 | – | – | Eland | 25 | – | – |
| Steenbok | 4 | – | – | Elephant | 11 | – | – | Reedbuck | 16 | – | – |
| Antelope | 1 | – | – | Eland | 8 | – | – | Giraffe | 15 | – | – |
| Elephant | 1 | – | – | Bushbuck | 7 | – | – | Porcupine | 11 | – | – |
| Hare | 1 | – | – | Ostrich | 5 | – | – | Waterbuck | 9 | – | – |
| Hyrax | 1 | – | – | Porcupine | 5 | – | – | Elephant | 8 | – | – |
| Lion | 1 | – | – | Cane rat | 4 | – | – | Warthog | 5 | – | – |
| Sheep | 1 | – | – | Cattle | 4 | – | – | Sable | 4 | – | – |
| Wildebeest | 3 | 1 | 33.3 (NA) | Antelope | 3 | – | – | ||||
| Baboon | 2 | – | – | Galago | 2 | – | – | ||||
| Vervet monkey | 2 | – | – | Sheep | 2 | – | – | ||||
| Aardvark | 1 | – | – | Baboon | 1 | – | – | ||||
| Hippo | 1 | – | – | Mongoose | 1 | – | – | ||||
| Roan | 1 | – | – | ||||||||
| Suni | 1 | – | – | ||||||||
| Total | 909 | 21 | 2.3 (1.3–3.3) | Total | 1688 | 24 | 1.4 (0.9–2.0) | Total | 1187 | 32 | 2.7 (1.8–3.6) |
"–": no data; NA: result not reliable and not included.