Table 3. Enterocytozoon bieneusi ITS genotypes in wastewater samples of four cities in China during 2006–2009a.
| Genotype | Ref No. | Reported hosts in the literature | No. of positive samples (No. of positive PCR products)a | |||
| Shanghai | Nanjing | Qingdao | Wuhan | |||
| Humans and/or animals | Group 1a–1hb (Group I)c | |||||
| Type IV | AY371277 | Humans, cats, cattle and dogs | 4 (4) | 5 (5) | 3 (3) | |
| EbpC | AY371279 | Humans, pigs, beaver, otter, muskrat, raccon and fox | 2 (2) | 1 (1) | 5 (5) | |
| EbpD | AF076043 | Pigs | 1 (1) | |||
| Peru6 | AY371281 | Humans, dog, cattle, birds | 1 (1) | 3 (4) | 1(1) | |
| Peru8 | AY371283 | Humans | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 11 (13) | |
| Peru11 | AY371286 | Humans | 2 (2) | 2 (2) | 6 (6) | |
| C | AF101199 | Humans | 1 (1) | |||
| D | AY371284 | Humans, pigs, cattle, dogs, beaver, falcons, fox, macaque, muskrat, raccoon | 78 (138) | 50 (99) | 71 (99) | 80 (133) |
| EbpA | AF076040 | Cattle, pigs | 2 (2) | |||
| PtEb IV | DQ885580 | Cats | 1 (1) | |||
| BEB6 | EU153584 | Cattle | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | ||
| PigEBITS7 | AF348475 | Pigs | 6 (7) | 1 (1) | ||
| PigEBITS8 | AF348476 | Pigs | 1 (1) | |||
| WL12 | AY237220 | Beaver, otter | 1 (1) | |||
| WL14 | AY237222 | Muskrat | 2 (2) | |||
| Unknown | Group 1id | |||||
| WW1e | 19031-2 | 4 (5) | ||||
| WW2e | 19055-2 | 1 (1) | ||||
| WW3e | 19083-1 | 15 (17) | 5 (6) | |||
| WW4e | 19063-2 | 3 (3) | ||||
| WW5e | 19054-1 | 1 (1) | ||||
| Muskrat and cat | Group 3b (Group Ic) | |||||
| WL4 | AY237212 | Muskrat | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | ||
| Unknown | Group 6d | |||||
| WW6e | 19081-2 | 4 (4) | ||||
| WW7e | 19107-1 | 1 (1) | ||||
| Dog | Outliersb (Group IVc) | |||||
| PtEb IX | DQ885585 | Dogs | 4 (4) | 3 (3) | ||
| WW8e | 19029-1 | 4 (5) | ||||
| WW9e | 19079-1 | 1 (1) | ||||
| Totalf | 85/90 (94.5%) | 54/87 (62.1%) | 100/109 (91.7%) | 99/100 (99.0%) | ||
a
All data on specific genotypes are based on sequence analysis.
b
Group name given by Thellier and Breton (2008).
c
Group name given by Henriques-Gil et al. (2010).
d
Group or subgroup newly identified in this study.
e
New genotype in this study.
f
No. of positive samples/No. of samples (positivity in percentage) based on PCR analysis of the ITS.