Table 2.

Prevalence of Blastocystis subtypes and unique genetic variants observed among the 437 Blastocystis-positive calf specimens

Subtypea	No. of samples	No. of unique genetic variants	Percentage of positive samples	GenBank accession number
ST1	5	5	1.1	OQ298902; OQ298904; OQ298906; OQ298910; OQ298912
ST2	1	1	0.2	OQ298895
ST3	10	4	2.3	OQ298874; OQ298893; OQ298894; OQ298913
ST4	13	4	3.0	OQ298873; OQ298885; OQ298886; OQ298899
ST5	5	1	1.1	OQ298868
ST6	1	1	0.2	OQ298909
ST10a	230	5	52.6	OQ298850; OQ298857; OQ298896; OQ298897; OQ298905
ST10b	94	17	21.5	OQ298855; OQ298865; OQ298867; OQ298869; OQ298871; OQ298872; OQ298877; OQ298878; OQ298881; OQ298884; OQ298887;OQ298889; OQ298890; OQ298898; OQ298907; OQ298911; OQ298914
ST10c	143	3	32.7	OQ298859; OQ298861; OQ298883
ST10d	351	2	80.3	OQ298847; OQ298851
ST10e	229	4	52.4	OQ298854; OQ298870; OQ298908; OQ298915
ST14	97	8	22.2	OQ298856; OQ298876; OQ298879; OQ298882; OQ298888; OQ298892; OQ298900; OQ298901
ST21	73	3	16.7	OQ298858; OQ298880; OQ298891
ST23	98	1	22.4	OQ298852
ST24	56	2	12.8	OQ298860; OQ298864
ST25	319	3	73.0	OQ298849; OQ298853; OQ298866
ST26	325	3	74.4	OQ298848; OQ298862; OQ298863
Novel	5	2	1.1	OQ298875; OQ298903

^aST10 was divided into five subgroups (ST10a, ST10b, ST10c, ST10d, and ST10e)