Table 3.

Prevalence of intestinal parasites in private-household cats from different regions in Japan

Parasite	Hokkaido (n = 27)	Tohoku (n = 520)	Kanto (n = 138)	Kinki (n = 62)	Kyushu (n = 121)	Okinawa (n = 74)
Giardia species	3.7% (1)*	1.2% (6)	3.6% (5)	0% (0)	1.7% (2)	0% (0)
Cystoisospora species	0% (0)	0.6%‡ (3)	0% (0)	4.8% (3)	4.1%§ (5)	2.7% (2)
Cystoisospora felis	0% (0)	0.2% (1)	0% (0)	1.6% (1)	1.7% (2)	1.4% (1)
Cystoisospora rivolta	0% (0)	0.4% ¶ (2)	0% (0)	3.2% (2)	3.3%∞ (4)	1.4% (1)
Toxascaris leonina	0% (0)	0.2% (1)	0.7% (1)	0% (0)	0% (0)	0% (0)
Ancylostoma tubaeforme	0% (0)	0.4%# (2)	0% (0)	0% (0)	0% (0)	4.1%** (3)
Taenia species	0% (0)	0.4% (2)	0% (0)	0% (0)	0% (0)	1.4% (1)
Spirometra erinacei	0% (0)	2.5% (13)	0.7% (1)	0% (0)	0.8% (1)	1.4% (1)
Total infection	11.1% (3)	10.8% (56†)	6.5% (9†)	9.7% (6)	10.7% (13†)	10.8% (8†)

^*Number of infected cats

^†This total number is smaller than sum of each parasite because of multiple infections

^‡vs ^§: P <0.01

^¶vs ^∞ and ^# vs **: P <0.05