Table 2 The total numbers of each host sampled in each catchment, as part of the Melbourne Water Corporation sampling program for waterborne pathogens (July 2011 to November 2015), together with the numbers of animals PCR test-positive for species/genotypes of Cryptosporidium (number of test-positive samples)
Catchment | Emu | Waterbird | Deer | Rabbit | Kangaroo | Wallaby | Wombat | Total | Prevalence (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cardinia | 1 C. canis | 4 (3 C. ryanae, 1 C. ubiquitum) | 1 C. macropodum | 2 (1 C. fayeri, 1 C. ubiquitum) | 718 | 1.11 | |||
Greenvale | 6 C. cuniculus | 14 (12 C. macropodum, 1. C. fayeri, 1 C. parvum) | 638 | 3.13 | |||||
Maroondah | 1 C. ryanae | 1 C. hominis | 6 C. fayeri | 344 | 2.32 | ||||
O'Shannassay | 9 (6 C. ryanae, 1 C. hominis, 1 C. suis, 1 C. ubiquitum) | 1 C. macropodum | 3 C. macropodum | 1 C. ubiquitum | 622 | 2.25 | |||
Silvan | 2 C. cuniculus | 1 C. macropodum | 527 | 0.57 | |||||
Tarago | 61 | 0 | |||||||
Thomson | 31 | 0 | |||||||
Upper Yarra | 3 C. sp. duck genotype | 4 (3 C. ryanae, 1 C. hominis) | 714 | 0.98 | |||||
Yan Yean | 2 C. ryanae | 6 (2 C. cuniculu s, 2 C. sp. Kangaroo genotype, 1 C. macropodum, 1 C. fayeri) | 601 | 1.33 |