Table 2.

Infection status for three parasite genera on consecutive repeated sampling of the same host individuals

Infection status	Haemoproteus			Leucocytozoon			Trypanosoma
	Female	Male	Pooled	Female	Male	pooled	Female	Male	Pooled
0-0	14	10	24	0	0	0	6	2	8
0-1	9	0	9	8	2	10	3	2	5
1-0	7	0	7	1	2	3	1	0	1
1-1	21	2	23	42	8	50	26	4	30
n (intervals)	51	12	63	51	12	63	36	8	44
n (individuals)	34	12	46	34	12	46	26	8	34

Given is the number of cases (intervals) for each of the four possible scenarios: gain of infection (0-1), loss of infection (1-0), retention of negative status (0-0), retention of positive status (1-1)

Sample size indicates number of individuals and number of time intervals (≥ 1 year) between samplings; individuals sampled more than twice contributed more than one interval

Estimates of incidence and persistence are shown in Additional file 3: Figure S1