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Table 1
Prevalence of Cryptosporidium infections in lambs and ewes determined by molecular analysis.
| Farms | Animals | Number examined | Animals positive for Cryptosporidium species |
Cryptosporidium parvum genotyping | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18S rRNA gene-based PCR | Lib13 locus and 18S rRNA sequence analysis | ||||
| #1 | Lambs | 20 | 13 (65%) | 13 ND | |
| Ewes | 18 | 3 (16.7%) | 2 C. parvum * | 1 C. parvum IIdA21G2 | |
| 1 ND | 1 C. parvum IIdA15G1 | ||||
| #2 | Lambs | 8 | 4 (50%) | 1 C. xiaoi | |
| 3 ND | |||||
| Ewes | 9 | 3 (33.3%) | 1 C. parvum * | 1 ND | |
| 1 C. ubiquitum | |||||
| 1 ND | |||||
| #3 | Lambs | 18 | 14 (77.8%) | 2 C. parvum * | 2 C. parvum IIdA24G1 |
| 12 ND | |||||
| Ewes | 10 | 5 (50%) | 1 C. xiaoi | ||
| 4 ND | |||||
| #4 | Lambs | 13 | 0 | ||
| Ewes | 16 | 2 (12.5%) | 1 C. parvum * | 1 C. parvum IIaA16G3R1 | |
| 1 ND | |||||
| #5 | Lambs | 20 | 5 (25%) | 2 C. parvum * | 2 ND |
| 3 ND | |||||
| Ewes | 19 | 2 (10.5%) | 2 C. parvum * | 1 C. parvum IIaA16G3R1 | |
| 1 C. parvum IIaA13G2R1 | |||||
| Total | Lambs | 79 | 36 (45.6%) | 4 C. parvum * | 2 C. parvum IIdA24G1 |
| 1 C. xiaoi | |||||
| 31 ND | |||||
| Ewes | 72 | 17 (23.6%) | 6 C. parvum * | 2 C. parvum IIaA16G3R1 | |
| 3 C. xiaoi | 1 C. parvum IIdA21G2 | ||||
| 1 C. ubiquitum | 1 C. parvum IIdA15G1 | ||||
| 7 ND | 1 C. parvum IIaA13G2R1 | ||||
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