Table 1.
Prevalence of intestinal parasites in private-household cats which visited veterinary clinics in Japan
| Overall (n = 942) | Age categories | Lifestyles | Sex | Faecal conditions | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parasite | ≤6-month- old cats (n = 228) | >6-month-old cats (n = 714) | P-value | Indoor (n = 804) | Outdoor (n = 138) | P-value | Male (n = 498) | Female (n = 444) | P-value | Formed (n = 897) | Unformed (n = 45) | P-value | |
| Giardia species | 1.5% (14)* | 3.1% (7) | 1.0% (7) | NS | 1.5% (12) | 1.4% (2) | NS | 2.0% (10) | 0.9% (4) | NS | 1.6% (14) | 0% (0) | NS |
| Cystoisospora species | 1.4% (13) | 4.8% (11) | 0.3% (2) | <0.0001 | 1.1% (9) | 2.9% (4) | NS | 1.6% (8) | 1.1% (5) | NS | 1.2% (11) | 4.4% (2) | NS |
| Cystoisospora felis | 0.5% (5) | 2.2% (5) | 0% (0) | <0.001 | 0.4% (3) | 1.4% (2) | NS | 0.4% (2) | 0.7% (3) | NS | 0.4%(4) | 2.2%(1) | NS |
| Cystoisospora rivolta | 1.0% (9) | 3.1% (7) | 0.3% (2) | <0.001 | 0.9% (7) | 1.4% (2) | NS | 1.2% (6) | 0.7% (3) | NS | 0.9%(8) | 2.2%(1) | NS |
| Toxocara cati | 6.2% (58) | 15.4% (35) | 3.2% (23) | <0.0001 | 4.9% (39) | 13.8% (19) | <0.001 | 6.2% (31) | 6.1% (27) | NS | 6.4% (57) | 2.2% (1) | NS |
| Toxascaris leonina | 0.2% (2) | 0.4% (1) | 0.1% (1) | NS | 0.2% (2) | 0% (0) | NS | 0.4% (2) | 0% (0) | NS | 0.2% (2) | 0% (0) | NS |
| Ancylostoma tubaeforme | 0.5% (5) | 0.9% (2) | 0.4% (2) | NS | 0.5% (4) | 0.7% (1) | NS | 0.6% (3) | 0.5% (2) | NS | 0.6% (5) | 0% (0) | NS |
| Taenia species | 0.3% (3) | 0.4% (1) | 0.3% (2) | NS | 0.4% (3) | 0% (0) | NS | 0.4% (2) | 0.2% (1) | NS | 0.3% (3) | 0% (0) | NS |
| Spirometra erinacei | 1.7% (16) | 1.3% (3) | 1.8% (13) | NS | 1.0% (8) | 5.8% (8) | <0.001 | 2.0% (10) | 1.4% (6) | NS | 1.8% (16) | 0% (0) | NS |
| Total infection | 10.1% (95 † ) | 22.4% (51 † ) | 6.2% (44 † ) | <0.001 | 8.5% (68 † ) | 19.6% (27 † ) | <0.001 | 10.8% (54 † ) | 9.2% (41 † ) | NS | 10.3% (92 † ) | 6.7% (3) | NS |
*
Number of infected cats
†
This total number is smaller than sum of each parasite because of multiple infections
NS = not significant