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Table 3 Worldwide distribution of Blastocystis subtypes in dogs and cats reported in 19 molecular studies (25 datasets)

From: Current global status, subtype distribution and zoonotic significance of Blastocystis in dogs and cats: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Author, year (n datasets)

Total samples (n)

Infected samples (n)

Prevalence (%)

Subtyping of infected samplesa

Zoonotic subtypesd (n/%)

Subtypedb (n/%)

Unidentifiedc (n/%)

Dogs

 Boutellis, 2021 (2 datasets)

9

1

11.1

–

1/100

–

 Osman, 2015

116

4

3.4

ST2 (2/50), ST10 (2/50)

–

Feb-50

 Udonsom, 2018 (2 datasets)

13

1

7.7

ST3 (1/100)

–

1/100

 Ramirez, 2014

40

15

37.5

ST2 (15/100)

–

15/100

 Wang, 2013 (1 dataset)

80

2

2.5

ST1 (2/100)

–

2/100

 Wang, 2013 (2 datasets)

80

1

1.3

ST2 (1/100)

–

1/100

 Wang, 2013 (3 datasets)

80

19

24

ST1 (9/47.4), ST4 (2/10.5), ST5 (1/5.3), ST6 (7/36.8)

–

19/100

 Belleza, 2016

145

20

13.8

ST2 (1/5), ST3 (2/10), ST4 (2/10), ST5 (2/10), ST1/ST3 (1/5), ST2/ST3 (1/5), ST4/ST5 (1/5)

Oct-50

Oct-50

 Li, 2016

315

6

1.9

ST1 (2/33.3), ST1/ST2 (4/66.7)

–

6/100

 Ruaux, 2014 (2 datasets)

103

10

9.7

ST1 (2/20), ST10 (2/20)

Jun-60

20-Feb

 Higuera, 2021

4

2

50

ST23/ST24 (1/50)

Jan-50

–

 Gazzonis, 2019

99

21

21.2

ST3 (21/100)

–

21/100

 Parkar, 2007 (2 datasets)

20

2

10

ST1 (1/50)

Jan-50

Jan-50

 Parkar, 2007 (3 datasets)

3

3

100

ST5 (3/100)

–

3/100

 Noradilah, 2017

40

21

52

ST1 (5/23.8), ST3 (7/33.3), ST4 (4/19), ST8 (4/19), ST10 (1/4.8)

–

20/95.2

 Liao, 2020

651

35

5.4

ST1 (6/17.1), ST3 (28/80), ST10 (1/2.8)

–

34/97.1

 Mohammadpour, 2020 (2 datasets)

154

29

18.8

ST2 (8/27.6), ST3 (11/37.9), ST4 (3/10.3), ST7 (3/10.3), ST8 (2/6.9), ST10 (2/6.9)

–

27/93.1

 Wang, 2018

136

4

2.9

ST1 (3/75), ST4 (1/25)

–

4/100

 Villamizar, 2019

8

1

12.5

ST1 (1/100)

–

1/100

Cats

 Boutellis, 2021 (1 dataset)

19

12

63.1

ST2 (3/25), ST3 (1/8.3)

8/66.7

4/33.3

 Can, 2021

465

17

3.6

ST4 (7/41.2)

10/58.8

7/41.2

 Li, 2019

346

2

0.6

ST1 (2/100)

–

2/100

 Ruaux, 2014 (1 dataset)

105

12

11.7

ST1 (1/8.3), ST3 (1/8.3), ST10 (4/33.4)

Jun-50

2/16.7

 Kwak, 2020

158

1

0.6

ST4 (1/100)

–

1/100

 Mohammadpour, 2020 (1 dataset)

119

21

17.7

ST1 (5/23.8), ST3 (7/33.3), ST4 (4/19), ST10 (3/14.3), ST14 (2/9.5)

–

16/76.2

  1. aOut of the positive samples of Blastocystis,
  2. bSome have been subtyped
  3. cSome have not been subtyped or not determined
  4. dThe number and percentage of zoonotic subtypes are computed for ST1-ST8