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Table 3 Percentage of samples positive to piroplasms (single or mixed infection) and percentage of samples where each piroplasm species was identified

From: Assessment of exposure to piroplasms in sheep grazing in communal mountain pastures by using a multiplex DNA bead-based suspension array

FLOCK

Total analysed

% piroplasm positive

Species identified (%)

B. ovis

B. motasi

T. ovis

T. luwenshuni/ OT1

Theileria sp. OT3

F1

152

43.4

7.9

3.9

0.7

9.2

41.4

F2

149

20.8

2.7

10.1

1.3

0.7

10.7

F3

75

93.3

0.0

5.3

77.3

8.0

64.0

F4

70

67.1

17.1

42.9

45.7

37.1

40.0

Total

446

48.0

6.3

12.3

20.9

10.5

34.8