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Table 1 The occurrence of Cryptosporidium avian genotype II in birds from the orders Galliformes, Psittaciformes and Struthioniformes demonstrated on the basis of molecular tools amplifying partial sequences of Cryptosporidium small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU), actin and 70 kDa heat-shock protein (HSP70) genes

From: Description of Cryptosporidium ornithophilus n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Cryptosporidiidae) in farmed ostriches

Host

Country

Locus (GenBank ID)

No. positive/no. screened

Reference

Chicken (Gallus gallus)a

China

SSU (JX548291-92)

6/385

[57]

Ostrich (Struthio camelus)c

Vietnam

SSU (AB696811)

110/464

[36]

Brazil

SSU (DQ002931)

Actin (DQ002930)

HSP70 (DQ002929)

1/1

1/1

1/1

[59]

Brazil

SSU (DQ650341)d

Actin (DQ650348)d

6/41

6/41

[19]

Cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus)b

Australia

SSU (DQ002931)d

Actin (DQ002930)d

3/ns

2/ns

[7]

Eclectus (Eclectus roratus)b

Australia

SSU (DQ650340)

Actin (DQ650347)

2/ns

1/ns

[7]

Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)

Australia

SSU (DQ650341)

Actin (DQ650348)

1/ns

1/ns

[7]

Major Mitchell cockatoo (Cacatua leadbeateri)b

Australia

SSU (DQ002931)d

Actin (DQ002930)d

3/ns

1/ns

[7]

Alexandrine (Psittacula eupatria)b

Australia

SSU (DQ002931)d

1/ns

[7]

Princess parrot (Polytelis alexandrae)b

Australia

SSU (DQ002931)d

1/ns

[7]

Sun conure (Aratinga solstitialis)b

Australia

SSU (DQ002931)d

1/ns

[7]

White-eyed parakeet (Aratinga leucophthalma)b

Brazil

SSU (DQ650341)d

1/ns

[56]

  1. aGalliformes
  2. bPsittaciformes
  3. cStruthioniformes
  4. dThe sequence obtained in the present study has not been stored in the GenBank database and was identical to sequence published previously
  5. Abbreviation: ns, not specified