Clustering of Cryptosporidium species infections among sheep and cattle but not children in remote highland communities of Madagascar

Table 2 Global clustering analysis of Cryptosporidium spp. infections

Number of NN	Study subject group
Number of NN	Children	Cattle	Sheep	C. xiaoi/bovis in cattle and sheep
10	0.33	0.12	0.01	< 0.01
20	0.33	0.49	0.03	< 0.01
30	0.09	0.29	0.04	0.01
40	0.25	0.16	0.02	< 0.01
50	0.24	0.15	0.04	< 0.01
100	0.62	0.10	0.76	< 0.01

The table lists P-values obtained using the Cuzick and Edwards’ test considering different numbers in k-nearest neighbor (NN) test (kNN) for Cryptosporidium spp. infections in the different groups of study subjects and for C. xiaoi/bovis infections in cattle and sheep

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