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. 2011 Aug 1;85(2):318–326. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.11-0140

Table 3.

Water quality testing results for household and source drinking water samples

Household samples (N = 234) Source samples (N = 85)
Fecal contamination (TTC/100 mL)
0 71 (30%) 37 (44%)
1–10 21 (9%) 16 (19%)
11–100 29 (12%) 11 (13%)
101–1,000 50 (21%) 9 (11%)
> 1,000 63 (27%) 12 (14%)
Free chlorine residual (mg/L)*
0 151 (65%) 47 (57%)
> 0 to < 0.2 60 (26%) 9 (11%)
0.2–2.0 23 (10%) 27 (33%)
Cryptosporidium spp. present N/A 3 (12%)
*

Data missing for two source samples.

Cryptosporidium spp. testing for 25 source samples. Positive samples included 124 oocysts in 50 L (2.5 oocysts/L), 6 oocysts in 50 L (0.12 oocysts/L), and 1 oocyst in 50 L (0.02 oocysts/L).