Table 2.

Prevalence of intestinal parasites in individual pet shop kittens in Japan

	Shop 1 (n = 70)	Shop 2 (n = 134)	Shop 3 (n = 24)	Shop 4 (n = 86)	Shop 5 (n = 241)
Giardia species	11.4% (8) *	11.9% (16)	4.2% (1)	11.6% (10)	8.7% (21)
Cystoisospora species	11.4% † (8)	24.6% ‡ (33)	0% § (0)	9.3% ¶ (8)	24.9%∞ (60)
Cystoisospora felis	8.6% † (6)	20.9% ‡ (28)	0% § (0)	5.8% ¶ (5)	21.6%∞ (52)
Cystoisospora rivolta	2.9% (2)	3.7% (5)	0% (0)	3.5% (3)	3.3% (8)
Toxocara cati	0% (0)	0.7% (1)	0% (0)	0% (0)	0% (0)
Total infection	22.9% (16)	32.1% # (43 ** )	4.2% †† (1)	19.8% (17 ** )	30.7% # (74 ** )

^*Number of infected kittens

^**This total number is smaller than sum of each parasite because of mutiple infections

P <0.01 for ^# vs ^††, ^‡ vs ^§, ^‡ vs ^¶, ^§ vs ^∞ and ^¶ vs ^∞. P <0.05 for ^† vs ^‡ and ^† vs ^∞