Analysis of individual infection variables with respect to individual TLR-response variables in LMMs or generalised linear mixed models (GLMMs) suggested that there was a highly significant negative relationship of H. polygyrus abundance to TLR2/zymosan response (LMM, F1,83.1 = 11.78, P < 0.001) and weaker negative relationships to TLR2/heat-killed Listeria monocytogenes (HKLM) response (LMM, F1,76 = 4.65; P = 0.034), TLR5 response (GLMM, F1,86.6 = 3.10; P = 0.082) and TLR9 response (LMM, F1,77.3 = 5.14; P = 0.026). Here, TLR9 is linked to infection.