Quantitative description of unequal virus shedding across 24 avian-virus infection datasets.

*<p>Avian host species in the order of first presented in table, <i>Falco sparvius, Melospiza melodia, Passer domesticus, Melopsittacus undulatus, Callipepla gambelii, Calidris alpinam, Anas platyrhynchos, Cardinalis cardinalis, Dumetella carolinensis, Zenaida macroura, Gallus gallus, Catharus ustulatus, Zonotrichia leucophrys, Sturnus vulgaris, Turdus migratorius.</i></p>†<p>Virus abbreviations, AIV, avian influenza virus; SLEV, St. Louis encephalitis virus; WEEV, western equine encephalitis virus; WNV, West Nile virus.</p>‡<p>Weibull shape parameter.</p>§<p>Weibull scale parameter.</p>¶<p>Gini coefficient (0.0 indicates perfect equality and 1.0 is complete inequality).</p><p>^{= |}Percent of birds within a group which shed virus at the 50^th, 80^th, or 90^th percentile.