Table 1 Summary of the different datasets used in this study, indicating the number of unique records (i.e., records on zoonotic microparasite species in Brazil) available at the NCBI Nucleotide database, the Enhanced Infectious Diseases (EID2) database, the Global Mammal Parasite v.2.0 (GMPD2) database, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) database, and records to free-ranging wild mammal species provided by our new dataset, the Brazilian Mammal Parasite Occurrence Data (BMPO).

From: Integrating databases for spatial analysis of parasite-host associations and the novel Brazilian dataset

Database

Nucleotide

GBIF

Shared by Nucleotide and GBIF

EID2

GMPD2

BMPO

Bacteria

136

65

55

40

2

58

Viruses

74

13

13

54

9

37

Protozoa

25

9

9

14

5

18

Fungi

54

55

34

2

18

Total zoonotic microparasites

289

142

111

108

18

131

Total zoonotic microparasites with geo-information

185

137

97

85

17

129

Host species name

413

106

45

267

Total associations

1010

286

67

995

Total associations with geo-information

497

186

51

977