Table 1 Noninvasive screening of wild-living bonobo communities for Laverania infections

n/a not available
^aField sites are designated by a two- or three-letter code (their location is shown in Fig. 1). Regular cytB screening data for KR and LK sites have previously been reported²
^bSamples initially negative by conventional (diagnostic) cytB PCR were subsequently retested by intensified PCR, performing 8–10 additional amplification reactions per faecal DNA (see Supplementary Table 1 for details)
^cThe host species origin of all faecal samples was confirmed by mitochondrial DNA (D-loop) analysis. As previously reported, the number of individuals tested at the KR, LK and TL2 sites was 38, 17 and 63, respectively³
^dAll amplification products were sequence confirmed to represent Laverania parasites
^eOnly a subset of the originally screened IK and LA samples were available for intensified PCR
^fOf a total of 38 and 63 bonobos at the KR and TL2 sites^{1, 2}, 1 and 24 were Laverania infected, indicating a prevalence of 2.6% and 38%, respectively

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