Table 1 Prevalence and species of Cryptosporidium. in broiler chickens in Guangdong Province, China
Location | Farms | No. samples | No. positive | % (95% CI) | Cryptosporidium species | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Â | No. of positive samples of C. baileyi (%) | No. of positive samples of C. meleagridis (%) | No. of positive samples of mixed infection (%) | |||
Qingyuan | 14 | 294 | 28 | 9.5 (6.1–12.9) | 10 (3.4) | 18 (6.1) | – |
Maoming | 10 | 283 | 40 | 14.1 (10.1–18.2) | 6 (2.1) | 31 (11.0) | 3 (1.1) |
Huizhou | 9 | 227 | 29 | 12.8 (8.4–17.2) | 23 (10.1) | 5 (2.2) | 1 (0.4) |
Yangjiang | 4 | 106 | 25 | 23.6 (15.4–31.8) | 4 (3.8) | 19 (17.9) | 2 (1.9) |
Meizhou | 4 | 59 | 7 | 11.9 (3.4–20.4) | 5 (8.5) | 2 (3.4) | – |
Shanwei | 2 | 32 | 3 | 9.4 (0–20.1) | – | 3 (9.4) | – |
Total |  | 1001 | 132 | 13.2 (11.1–15.4) | 48 (4.8) | 78 (7.8) | 6 (0.6) |