Table 5.

Prevalence of Cryptosporidium and Giardia related to number of samples from each dog

Number of samples provided from each dog	Total number Of dogs	Number of Cryptosporidium positive dogs (%)	Number of Giardia positive dogs (%)
1	43	8 (18.6)	5 (11.6)
2	35	14 (40.0)	3 (8.6)
3	74	40 (54.1)	17 (23.0)
4	138	66 (47.8)	35 (25.4)
Total	290	128 (44.1)	60 (20.7)

A dog was considered positive if it had at least one positive sample with Cryptosporidium or Giardia. Some of the dogs had more than one positive sample for either or both parasites.