# More people, more cats, more parasites: Human population density predicts prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii oocyst shedding in free-ranging domestic felids --- Final dataset with 51 groups of felids sampled from 47 studies (256 positives out of 9,635 fecal samples). Data includes confirmed T. gondii oocyst shedding prevalence from domestic cats and wild felids. The six wild felid species represented in our study include bobcat (Lynx rufus), cougar (Felis concolor), Geoffrey’s cat (Oncifelis geoffroyi), Pampas cat (Felis colocolo), Iriomote cat (Prionailurus iriomotensis), and Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul). ## Description of the data and file structure Explaination of data columns uniqueid: Unique ID of each population of felids sampled paper: ID of paper, certain papers sampled multiple felid groups in the same study. title: Title of paper author: Last name of first author of paper year: Year published country: Country where sampling took place continent: Continent associated with each country confirmed: Was T. gondii confirmed in the study (1=yes, 0=no) microscopy: Was microscopy used PCR: Was PCR used to confirmed T. gondii molecularly bioassay: Was mouse bioassay used to confirm T. gondii presence samples: Total fecal samples collected and tested positive.samples: Total T. gondii confirmed samples perc.positive: Population T. gondii oocyst shedding prevalence calculated as positive.samples/samples genotype: Genotype described in paper strain: More specific designation of genotype described in paper months: Months sampled (if described in paper) domestic/wild: Does the paper describe domestic cats (0) or wild felid (1) species lat and lon: Latitude and longitude of sampling site. n/a in columns 'genotype' and 'strain' indicate that the authors of the original manuscripts did not attempt to or were not able to genotype T. gondii from feces. ## Sharing/Access information Data was derived from the following sources: * Zhu et al. 2021. Dynamics and epidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii oocyst shedding in domestic and wild felids. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/tbed.14197 * Hatam-Nahavandi et al. 2021. Toxoplasma gondii infection in domestic and wild felids as public health concerns: a systematic review and meta-analysis.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89031-8