Fig. 3. FIV significantly increases the prevalence of select gastrointestinal and hemoparasitic coinfections, as well as overall parasite richness for both groups. Graph (a) shows the prevalence of coinfecting parasites isolated in lions from this study. Sample size for the parasite groups included is as follows: n = 114 for gastrointestinal parasites; n = 190 for hemoparasites; and n = 195 for viral parasites. Coinfections are broken down by FIV status (positive versus negative). The two additional graphs illustrate the relationship between FIV status and gastrointestinal parasite richness (b) and hemoparasite richness (c).

Published as part of Broughton, Heather, Govender, Danny, Serrano, Emmanuel, Shikwambana, Purvance & Jolles, Anna, 2021, Equal contributions of feline immunodeficiency virus and coinfections to morbidity in African lions, pp. 83-94 in International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 16 on page 90, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2021.07.003, http://zenodo.org/record/13267525